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
Thanks @tkadlec... very inconcistent browser behaviours thou. I'd love to see how Desktop Safari 6 & 7 would perform.