Performance issues on some browsers

[Lomkex1]

For some reason Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge don't optimize g tag transforms it repaints the whole g tag while transforming and it's very slow compared to other svg manipulation libraries.
On Safari it's working like a charm, no hiccups whatsoever.
Will there ever be an option to transform svg tag insted of g tag in future versions?

[bumbu]

Please see #277 as it has answers and more.
As a short answer - doing transforms on SVG tag will make us loose some features and not be compatible with IE8 (possibly even IE9). But I'd be open to have this functionality as a flag for those people who care about performance and don't need separate layers in their SVG.

Could you please share some links of other SVG libraries that have better performance? Maybe we can learn from them and borrow some code implementations?

[Lomkex1]

https://github.com/timmywil/jquery.panzoom
This library has a much better performance since it applies transform on a div tag and browsers renders it as a composite layer resulting in a stunning performance on lower end devices.

[bumbu]

Thank you for the example. I'll leave it open as an example for alternatives.