From what I have seen, SVG has a number of strong advantages over other forms of graphic manipulation. Not the least of which, text that has been added to a SVG graphic and changed is still readable by the search engines. From a SEO standpoint this is a huge advantage over Flash, or static images like jpg or gif. This allows webmasters to create unique headers or titles that can still be indexed by the search engines.

Although, this issue has been addressed a number of times, such as at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/06_0810_ez_ie.mspx, https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1015162&SiteID=1, and several other places. In each one MS seems to be avoiding the issue.

What's the problem here? The other major browsers already have native support, but with IE (at least up to IE7) you have to download a third party plugin. Something that most users do not like to do, and so makes SVG impractical for many public based websites.

Another good reason to promote FireFox or other browsers!