Ask DN: Is Sketch adding useless meta tags to SVGs?

almost 7 years ago from Chris Lüders, Freelance UX Designer

Fran Pérez, over 6 years ago (edited over 6 years ago )
Probably these:
<title></title> <description>Created with Sketch Beta.</description> <defs></defs>
And this:
xmlns:sketch="http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ns"
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- Chris Lüders, over 6 years ago
  Yea, right.
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- Brendan Saunders, over 6 years ago
  I replied to someone else as to the purpose of these "extra tags".
  is used for telling your SVG not to render items, you can later display them by utilizing a tag. Chris Coyier (of course) does a great job explaining a use-case for this: http://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts/
  Not sure why they export with the custom xmlns, perhaps tracking purposes? That url just goes to a page not found.
  As far as why they export with defs, perhaps they plan in using it in the future? Like a way to export SVG icon sprites?? (That'd be pretty sweet!)
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