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“Now lets try another version of that page which is served as text/html to IE, again with embedded SVG, and marked as X-UA-Compatible: IE=7.  Whereas previously, it wasn’t all that compatible, IE8b2 at least attempts to be more compatible (complete with the invisible h1), until it gets to the SVGized W3C logo.  As SVG images go, you can’t get much simpler than this: two consecutive path statements.  But apparently, that’s beyond the limits of what IE8b2 supports, and it basically gives up parsing markup on the rest of the page.  Converting the self-closing path elements to use explicit open and close tags works around the issue.” source...