In scatter traces it's possible to describe marker.symbol either by string ('diamond-open-dot') or number (302). scattergl (and splom) should allow the same - particularly useful for symbol arrays, as then you can use an efficient typedArray for the symbol.
see #2492 (comment) and #2505 (comment)
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scattertraces it's possible to describemarker.symboleither by string ('diamond-open-dot') or number (302).scattergl(andsplom) should allow the same - particularly useful for symbol arrays, as then you can use an efficienttypedArrayfor the symbol.see #2492 (comment) and #2505 (comment)