The problem isnt so much SVG rendering, its that you can grab an icon font with 400 icons that look great, its easy to add them to places beside text, like in m

The problem isnt so much SVG rendering, its that you can grab an icon font with 400 icons that look great, its easy to add them to places beside text, like in menus or on buttons. You can use SVG, but there is no CDN-hosted SVG sprite with 400 icons to replace things like FontAwesome or Ionicons, so you would have to find all the SVGs you wanted. Then you have the challenge of getting them the right size and position beside text in very tight spaces.