It's actually not been that hard to hand-write an SVG that looks good in the major browsers, but then Inkscape renders it into a mess. The areas I tend to run

It's actually not been that hard to hand-write an SVG that looks good in the major browsers, but then Inkscape renders it into a mess. The areas I tend to run into it are when fine-tuning text, and when using complicated clip-paths. Maybe I only have this impression because I hand-write svg watching my progress in a browser, and only check in inkscape after the fact. Perhaps if I started with inkscape I'd be noticing all the ways the browser fails on inkscape svg instead. Either way it's not an ideal situation.