I don't disagree with these statements, but I don't understand how they're relevant to my point. The Javascript-in-SVG is what I pointed to in the spec. 18.2:

I don't disagree with these statements, but I don't understand how they're relevant to my point. The Javascript-in-SVG is what I pointed to in the spec. 18.2: "A ‘script’ element is equivalent to the ‘script’ element in HTML and thus is the place for scripts (e.g., ECMAScript). Any functions defined within any ‘script’ element have a "global" scope across the entire current document."