I have not attempted inline SVG with IE. However, I wanted to raise a
related issue about multiple SVG objects in IE.

My experience of including multiple SVG objects in an HTML page under
IE7 is that the browser goes unstable if there are more than, say, 10
such objects in the page, whether or not any SVG-rendering plugin is
installed. This is not improved even by using script to convert the
OBJECT tags into EMBED tags. My experience has been that page loading
gets unpredictably very slow or stops altogether. (To repeat: I have
observed this to happen even when no plugin is installed, and the
browser is falling back correctly to the img elements contained within
the object/embed tags).

Although the ASV plugin works well for one or two included SVG objects,
my experience is that IE just isn't stable enough to permit serving SVG
instead of raster images for typical web-page confetti images. My tests
have shown this problem to be no better under IE8 than IE7. I have
therefore reluctantly had to massage my pages, when serving IE clients,
to drop the object elements for SVG images and serve only the fall-back
img tags.

Unless others have found a cure for this instability, then I fear the
only viable option for IE is to serve raster images using the IMG tag,
or else to use XSLT sorcery to convert the SVG into VML as I believe
Google are doing.

Regards to all,

Christopher Smithies


-----Original Message-----
From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:svg-developers@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of alexgreindl
Sent: 01 July 2009 15:16
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [svg-developers] Inline SVG and CSS in IE

Hi,
I have to create a html file containing multiple svg objects.
The html page should be displayed local on the pc using MS Internet
Explorer 7.