[nwh]

Vector art can look very good when optimised for smaller sizes. The issue is that the current formats and engines for vector use on the web.

I've spent a lot of time trying to tweak my vector icons to work well in various browsers, and its next to impossible at the moment. More often than not SVG graphics are larger than their bitmap counterparts, almost always crash WebKit browsers, or take 5-10 seconds to render. Safari on iOS will crash if you zoom in on even the most simple graphics.

I love vector artwork, I truly do. It's the rendering engines that are letting us down.