I'm modifying these digital chess pieces to have a specific theme and I need the border width to help, does someone know the width or how I can get it? The border is a different object from the front, here's a link to a GitHub repo of the svgs, it goes directly to one svg, just in that piece set, you can download them to examine
https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/master/public/piece/rhosgfx/bB.svg
I am wondering what other specialist tools exist for designing SVG applications rather than mere images. I am the author of one such product (SVG-FTG) and would like to compare notes with others about the difficulty in deploying them.
SVG is a document format rather than an image format (i.e. can utilise CSS and script), and I believe the ubiquitous usage for static images gives it bad press (i.e. that it can masquerade as an image and so allow the user to inadvertently execute something nasty).
This leads many web hosts to disallow SVG -- even inline SVG (inside an HTML document) -- which is a little daft as it is no more dangerous than HTML in essence. This is part of a generic problem with some hosts not accepting documents designed by external specialist tools as opposed to their own simplistic ones.
At the moment, I use neocities.org as it is simple and tolerant in this respect.
These are the top open and closed model: Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 Pro, DeepSeek V4, GLM-5.1 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. They both show similar performance in my testing.
Open models: The only open models that have equivalent quality compared to the top models are DeepSeek and GLM.
Cost:
GPT 5.5 Pro: Super expensive it makes no sense (cost is around $2)
Gemini/Opus: $0.2/$0.1. Opus is cheaper as it consumed less tokens
DeepSeek/GLM: $0.019/$0.021 10-5 times cheaper than Gemini and Opus.
