SVG is awesome
Except that Internet Explorer makes it useless, at least in terms of wide availability.
Don’t get me wrong, if you run IE in this day and age you should have a cattle prod used in your re-education, but if you actually don’t want to exclude a potential market, SVG isn’t for you. It seems that even IE 8 does not yet support SVG. There’s a plugin, but that’s going away, and requiring plugins is bad news for a simple page.
Which is a shame. Otherwise you could use Inkscape to generate really pretty web content. I mean, you still can, but a ton of people will have issues with it.