Does injecting the SVG before everything, right after opening the <body> hinders page render performance?
Moving the injected SVG to the head solves the render issue, what would happen with page render performance, validation and compatibility (ie)?
PS: live example: http://codepen.io/rhawbert/pen/uAKfw
@legomushroom Also the reason the problem shown up is because of PE tests I was doing... so loading an external SVG isn't possible in this scenario, since the SVG is actualy injected in the markup in order to reduce the number of requests, latency, etc.