For SVG to truly rise, it needs better font/text support. It should be easy to programmatically determine the width of a string of text in a given font. Unfortunately, it is not. You can go look how libraries like D3.js do it. But ultimately, pixel-perfect text with SVG is difficult/impossible. I'd really like to know if I'm wrong about that.

On the positive side, ReactJS plays great with SVG. I'm working on some basic line charts that I want ReactJS-managed so I can render them server-side too. My line chart isn't done but I tried the server-side rendering and it's working great.