The XML parser is not much a problem: the time to parse it is insignificant compared to the waste of resources to store and transport bitmap graphics. Bitmaps

The XML parser is not much a problem: the time to parse it is insignificant compared to the waste of resources to store and transport bitmap graphics. Bitmaps will also never be able to adapt their content gracefully to user preferences and constraints. Bitmaps have no intelligence; they are only suitable for photography, but even in this case they lack information for proper rendering, so you will nver same twice the same bitmap across devices and rendering supports Just compare what we had in the past with bitmap fonts (now almost abandoned except for text consoles) and how we appreciate now to have scalable vector fonts. Bitmaps are extremely complicate to adapt to any layout, whereas SVG graphics can be now self-adaptative, to render only what is needed.