transclude.dev @transclude.dev · 1d Every icon system on the web is built on a feature nobody calls by its name. You write the shape once, give it an id, and point at it from anywhere. Change the definition and every use of it changes.
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That's transclusion. Ted Nelson coined the word in 1980 for exactly this: a document naming a piece of another document, and the piece showing up in place. The browser has shipped a working version since 2011. It works for shapes. That's the whole of it.