Well, there was a good reason for that, for a long time: IE didn't even begin to support .svg until version 9, which means that it isn't a realistic option for

Well, there was a good reason for that, for a long time: IE didn't even begin to support .svg until version 9, which means that it isn't a realistic option for deployment for anyone who needs to support pre-evergreen browsers. I investigated them a year or two or so ago, because I found that AngularJS could work quite nicely within an .svg document, which opened up some exciting possibilities. My recollection is that at the time, there were some critical cross-browser problems with font rendering that made the topic very kludgy and complicated. I except that matters have improved since, but I do not know to what extent.