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One nice bonus is that they can get text-shadows and any other styling your normal text could.

• wladimir 15y ago
  Then again, you could also do that in images. Especially if you have some graphic effects like feather, gradient and drop shadows, the advantage of client-side rendering is not entirely clear. If anything, it makes the site heavier to render. (sure, you get scaling for "free" because it's vector, but in many cases you don't need to use the same icons in multiple sizes on the same device/page, so you could do that as well offline and simply fetch the right image...)