Can somebody own this please? 
such a useful method, it's a shame it doesn't work in Chrome for SVG elements. Thanks.

People are interested:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/16472797/104380

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/5d6edb4f084778cf635640c4fafd65418af841f7

commit 5d6edb4f084778cf635640c4fafd65418af841f7
Author: Fredrik Söderquist <fs@opera.com>
Date: Fri Sep 21 19:45:00 2018

Fix scrollIntoView(...) for SVG elements

AbsoluteBoundingBoxRectForScrollIntoView and associated helpers did not
compute the correct bounding box for SVG shapes (or anything but the SVG
root.)
Compute the bounding rect using the stroke bounding box.

Bug:  803440 
Change-Id: If25ca98b686f17a0db699e569460cb4c276f06a0
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1238458
Reviewed-by: David Bokan <bokan@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Fredrik Söderquist <fs@opera.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#593306}
[add] https://crrev.com/5d6edb4f084778cf635640c4fafd65418af841f7/third_party/WebKit/LayoutTests/external/wpt/css/cssom-view/scrollIntoView-svg-shape.html
[modify] https://crrev.com/5d6edb4f084778cf635640c4fafd65418af841f7/third_party/blink/renderer/core/layout/layout_object.cc