The problem with SVG 1.1 is, that it doesn't support text wrapping. Text wrapping came with SVG 1.2 Tiny years later, but this standard had been ignored at that

The problem with SVG 1.1 is, that it doesn't support text wrapping. Text wrapping came with SVG 1.2 Tiny years later, but this standard had been ignored at that time. Then came HTML5.