Chrome Version       : 53.0.2785.116
OS Version: OS X 10.11.6
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
  Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
     Safari 5: FAIL
  Firefox 4.x: FAIL
     IE 7/8/9: not tested

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open the attached “a.html” and “b.html”.

What is the expected result?
You should see a black ellipse in both documents. In terms of XML syntax, the two files are structurally equivalent, so (as far as I can tell) they should get rendered in the same way.

What happens instead of that?
The SVG image in document “b.html” is not rendered. Apparently, the HTML browser fails to properly handle the XML namespace.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

The document “b.html” was generated from “a.html” with the following script:

    #!/usr/bin/python2.7
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
    print etree.tostring(etree.parse('a.html').getroot())

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36

 

Deleted: a.html 167 bytes

a.html 167 bytes View Download

Deleted: b.html 183 bytes

b.html 183 bytes View Download