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> I only reach for SVG when I need to do something that other formats cannot. Like rendering actual text?

• jacobolus 3y ago
  From one implementation to another and depending on the way the SVG was encoded, text in an SVG often does not look the same for different viewers. This can seriously mess up the layout of diagrams, etc.
  • pennomi 3y ago
    Plus SVG can’t properly wrap text, which matters for some use cases.
    • int_19h 3y ago
      If you're rendering a PNG, you're already doing layout, so you might as well still do it but at least keep the individual glyphs as, well, glyphs (so that they scale to high DPI etc).
• dunham 3y ago
  At one point, SVG couldn't do that. It was a long time ago, but I recall not being able to use SVG to render sideways text because the text tag wasn't supported by browsers. For IE, we had a PNG font that we displayed slices of, and then we migrated to rotation css as various browsers supported it. (I think IE was the last holdout, but it's been a while.)