Safari SVG mask render glitch (clip-path) - svg

I'm trying to make an image unveil effect with an SVG mask, where a path with a quite complex geometry is scaled via CSS transforms:
clip-path: url(#aqua-dot-mask);
https://codepen.io/rberneder/pen/pojaNex
I tested the effect in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. The first two browsers are presenting what I want to achieve, but Safari has real troubles and glitches.
It seems Safari still has no full support of the clip-path property, but it should be capable of this particular one.
https://caniuse.com/#search=clip-path
Any ideas?

Thanks #Robert for your help. The solution I came up with is to just put the img tag as image tag into the SVG.
Instead of:
<img src="..." style="clip-path(#mask)" />
<svg>
<defs>
<clipPath id="mask">...</clipPath>
</defs>
</svg>
I now have:
<svg>
<defs>
<clipPath id="mask">...</clipPath>
</defs>
<image href="..." style="clip-path: url(#mask);" />
</svg>
https://codepen.io/rberneder/pen/xxwYmOj
This works for me.

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svg image element not shown on mobile

I have been trying to get the cross browser compatability working of my svg project. I had a friend test my link on a mobile, but he sais the image doesn't load and he gets a black screen (I assume the black he refers too, is the rect in the background). Does anyone have any idea what is wrong with my code or why the image doesn't display properly on mobile?
svg
<svg viewbox="0 0 3000 2500">
<g transform="translate(225,50)">
<rect width="2550" height="1925" id="background-rect"></rect>
<image href="http://lorempixel.com/output/animals-q-c-640-480-3.jpg" width="2550" height="1925"></image>
</g>
</svg>
Example: https://codepen.io/RobMo/pen/aVvKEP
PS: Just an idea: It might have to do with me not declaring a namespace. I can't test it right now, but that might be what is causing this. Or maybe help people provide inspiration for an answer :).
PPS: To use the <img> tag you need to use xlink:href instead of just href. I should've decared the namespace in the svg tag as well.
What happens when you add a namespace?
<svg viewbox="0 0 3000 2500" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<g transform="translate(225,50)">
<rect width="2550" height="1925" id="background-rect"></rect>
<image href="http://lorempixel.com/output/animals-q-c-640-480-3.jpg" width="2550" height="1925"></image>
</g>
</svg>
REF - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/image

SVG <defs> not included from external target of <use> [duplicate]

I'm trying to hack together a sprite sheet from a set of icons. I know almost nothing about SVG. I can get the simple icons to work, but an icon with a clip path isn't displaying properly. From what I can tell it seems like it's not using the clip path.
The sprite works in jsfilddle and it works if I just load the svg on it's own and include a < use > statement in the SVG. But if I have a separate < use > it doesn't work.
All my testing has been done in Chrome (50.0.2661.94)
<svg xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<defs>
<clipPath id="folder-clip-0">
<path d="..." />
</clipPath>
<symbol id="folder" viewBox="0 0 32 32">
<g class="container" data-width="32" data-height="27" transform="translate(0 2)">
<path d="..." class="..." />
<path class="..." d="..." />
<path clip-path="url(#folder-clip-0)" d="..." class="..." />
</g>
</symbol>
</defs>
</svg>
I'm using it like so:
<svg>
<use
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="/img/path/sprite.svg#folder">
</use>
</svg>
When I use the separate statement it looks like this:
But it should look like this:
The color difference is not relevant, it's just the background when the image was taken.
Edit:
I just discovered that if I dump the whole sprite sheet into the page HTML and reference it locally instead of an external file it works. So I don't know what's wrong with my external reference.
e.g.
<svg>
<use xlinkHref={"/img/path/not/work/sprite.svg#folder"}></use>
</svg>
vs.
<svg>
<symbol id="folder"></symbol>
</svg>
<svg>
<use xlinkHref={"#folder"}></use>
</svg>
This works for me as a fallback, but I'd rather have an external SVG file instead of embedding it in my HTML.
Edit 2:
If the SVG sprite sheet is embeded in the HTML directly using the external link shows the icon correctly.
This seems to be a browser support issue. Using the external reference works as expected in Firefox. Chrome doesn't handle clip paths and some other functions in external references. There's an outstanding bug report filed. Safari also doesn't support it.
Related StackOverflow ticket: Why can't I reference an SVG linear gradient defined in an external file (paint server)?
Open bugs:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109212
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105904

Clip path not displaying properly in SVG sprite when using "use"

I'm trying to hack together a sprite sheet from a set of icons. I know almost nothing about SVG. I can get the simple icons to work, but an icon with a clip path isn't displaying properly. From what I can tell it seems like it's not using the clip path.
The sprite works in jsfilddle and it works if I just load the svg on it's own and include a < use > statement in the SVG. But if I have a separate < use > it doesn't work.
All my testing has been done in Chrome (50.0.2661.94)
<svg xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<defs>
<clipPath id="folder-clip-0">
<path d="..." />
</clipPath>
<symbol id="folder" viewBox="0 0 32 32">
<g class="container" data-width="32" data-height="27" transform="translate(0 2)">
<path d="..." class="..." />
<path class="..." d="..." />
<path clip-path="url(#folder-clip-0)" d="..." class="..." />
</g>
</symbol>
</defs>
</svg>
I'm using it like so:
<svg>
<use
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="/img/path/sprite.svg#folder">
</use>
</svg>
When I use the separate statement it looks like this:
But it should look like this:
The color difference is not relevant, it's just the background when the image was taken.
Edit:
I just discovered that if I dump the whole sprite sheet into the page HTML and reference it locally instead of an external file it works. So I don't know what's wrong with my external reference.
e.g.
<svg>
<use xlinkHref={"/img/path/not/work/sprite.svg#folder"}></use>
</svg>
vs.
<svg>
<symbol id="folder"></symbol>
</svg>
<svg>
<use xlinkHref={"#folder"}></use>
</svg>
This works for me as a fallback, but I'd rather have an external SVG file instead of embedding it in my HTML.
Edit 2:
If the SVG sprite sheet is embeded in the HTML directly using the external link shows the icon correctly.
This seems to be a browser support issue. Using the external reference works as expected in Firefox. Chrome doesn't handle clip paths and some other functions in external references. There's an outstanding bug report filed. Safari also doesn't support it.
Related StackOverflow ticket: Why can't I reference an SVG linear gradient defined in an external file (paint server)?
Open bugs:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109212
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105904

SVG image generated in browser different in Illustrator

I'm writing a web application which generates SVG images in the browser.
The SVG's I'm generating work fine in ever browser. However, when I download one of the SVG's and try to open it in Adobe Illsutrator, all the transformations are all over the place.
They are in fact so different that you have to zoom right out to see where the shapes are positioned.
This is the contents of the SVG, you can see it's pretty simple. Just a couple of nested SVG's and a few basic shapes:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" width="592" height="592" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<svg style="overflow:visible;" x="88.80000305175781" y="88.80000305175781" fill="#777777">
<svg style="overflow:visible;" height="100px" width="100px">
<rect width="100" height="100" style="stroke:#006600;" transform="scale(4.144 4.144)"></rect>
</svg>
</svg>
<svg style="overflow:visible;" width="592" height="592" x="176.60000000000016" y="177.60000000000014" fill="#000000">
<rect width="592" height="592" fill="rgba(0,0,0,0)" stroke="#bbbbbb" transform="scale(0.4 0.4)"></rect>
<svg style="overflow:visible;" x="-0.0000015258789005656581" y="-0.0000015258789005656581">
<svg style="overflow:visible;" height="48px" width="48px">
<ellipse id="SvgjsEllipse1010" rx="24" ry="24" cx="24" cy="24" style="stroke:#006600;fill:#00cc00;" transform="scale(4.933333333333334 4.933333333333334)"></ellipse>
</svg>
</svg>
</svg>
</svg>
I don't know the SVG spec inside out, but I'm doing anything particularly complex, so it all seems good to me. I can't see a reason why Illustrator would render it so differently to browsers.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Edit
This is what it looks like in Illsutrator, as you can see the scaling and positioning is all off, the small square in the center is the 592 x 592 canvas area, so you can see who far I am zoomed out.
I suspect AI doesn't like/handle/expect nested <svg> elements. Try replacing them with groups. Those with x and y attributes may need to have a transform added to get it to look the same. Also if the overflow is important, you may need to tweak things further as that property is not valid for group elements.

svg inside svg is rasterized causing blury results when scaling up

I'd like to embed an external SVG image file within an <svg> tag. To do this, i'm using SVG's <image> tag as follows:
<svg width="1000" height="1000"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<image x="0" y="0" width="48" height="48"
xlink:href="http://static.micahcarrick.com/media/images/autotools-tutorial/hello-world.svg"
transform="scale(5.0)" />
</svg>
As you can see, I'm trying to scale the nested SVG by 5.0 by adding a transform attribute. Unfortunately, in both Firefox and Chrome, I'm sometimes getting a blury image because it's rasterizing the nested SVG before scaling it up.
Note: It sometimes works as expected (The nested SVG stays crisp) in Firefox and Chrome, but not always (For example, if I open the attached JSFiddle in Chrome, it's blury/broken. If I press F5, it's crisp/working)
Is there any way to ensure that the nested SVG is never rasterized before scaling ?
Thanks :)
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/a9NRY/17/
This is a known bug in Chrome, caused by the fact that the image is cached. You can't fix this from your code, since it's a browser bug, but you could try to disable caching for that image on the server side.

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