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That is SMIL, and is on the way out. IE never implemented it, and Chrome wants to remove it (but hasn't yet). CSS animations are the replacement.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

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That's disappointing, because CSS wouldn't be a viable replacement in this case - it can't animate XML attributes like seed. Or is that something they plan to support one day?

https://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/css-animation/animation-pro...

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