As for the author's point that he needed to animate the logo ... SVG2 works on unifying CSS and SVG animation. Currently the options are either SMIL (which won't work in IE) or JS (which may have other unpleasant properties).
Interestingly, most things coming from CSS (not just animation) are quite inferior to what SVG already provided. That's there will be unification is mostly a concession to the fact that things haven't been implemented by browser vendors historically and users seem to like CSS solutions better than SVG these days.
You would think he would put his money where his mouth is and convert all the diagrams and vector graphics into HTML/CSS but deep down he knows it's just ridiculous and excruciatingly impractical.