Use SVG embedded inside line of text

[Pavel Holoborodko]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for developing such great tool - SVGWeb!

I develop service for embedding mathematical formulas & graphics in web pages.

Server renders math into PNG image and serves it on demand.  

Although it works well, PNG has huge disadvantage - it doesn't scale well with the text on the page. 

SVG looks as very promising alternative. The only problem - zoo of browsers with different support of SVG.

I plan to use SVGWeb to solve this problem. 

I have several questions in this connection:

1. (Main) Is it possible to insert SVG graphics in a line of text using SVGWeb? Control its vertical alignment using CSS or else?  

I need this for inline formulas - see this image for explanation:

http://holoborodko.com/pavel/downloads/formulas_as_svg.png

2. There are can be many small SVG images (formulas) on one page - how this can affect rendering performance? 

Is it possible to render 30+ small SVG object on a page with acceptable speed in browsers where SVG is not supported naitively?

3. I want to store SVG graphics in external .svgz compressed files, and insert them on page a-la <img> style - just providing url to .svgz file.

Would it be possible combined with two other questions?

Thanks in advance,

Pavel Holoborodko.