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Google Photos hamburger icon is SVG
1 point by jebblue on June 14, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I used Inspect in Chrome on the hamburger icon (what I used to call a menu icon until I noticed people call it a hamburger icon). It seems to be a type of SVG contraption.

I didn't even know you could do all of this in HTML now:

http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_path.asp



Now that I think about it more, why create all that complex syntax when you could use a client side application like InkScape to create a hamburger icon then just reference it in HTML simply which I thought was how HTML was supposed to work, simple document viewing.

I ask because my wife has complained that some web pages now cause her (aging laptop) to overheat and stop working.




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