Vectors are not a panacea. http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-.

Vectors are not a panacea. http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-icons.html http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-... (Among other articles about this topic). Having said that, I still wish they were better supported in modern OSes as a hybrid solution because while they start to fall apart at small sizes they do handle the scaling in the other direction (which is what this topic is mostly about here anyway) well, certainly better than just upsampling a bitmap icon.