Svg with image inside is not showing in safari

Question

Inside my website, I am embeding a few svgs. They all seem to work just fine in Chrome, Firefox, IE(9+) and in Safari. Howvere as soon as there is image included in the svg, safari does not render the image.

Based on the previous similar topic I have tried the following:

SVG <image> elements not displaying in Safari - enclosing

 <use>

tag like this <use></use>

SVG Image dosen't appear in Safari - I dont find this very usefull,cause this is deleting aprt of the svg.

Not able to render SVG image in Safari - Added

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml"> in header.

And beyond that, I dont really know what else to try. Maybe one more interesting thing to note is that inside my page, image is not displayed, but I can open svg file in safari(just the file) and it will be renderd correctly. Further more, after it's opened in the browser as a file, it renders inside the page as well. And I embed the svg to the page with img tag.

<img src="mysvg.svg" class="center-block"/>

This is my svg:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0)  -->
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
     width="328px" height="328px" viewBox="0 0 328 328" enable-background="new 0 0 328 328" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
    <defs>
        <polygon id="SVGID_1_" points="1.414,164.001 164,326.586 326.586,164.001 164,1.414      "/>
    </defs>
    <clipPath id="SVGID_2_">
        <use xlink:href="#SVGID_1_"  overflow="visible"></use>
    </clipPath>
    <g id="DSC_x5F_0112-2.psd" clip-path="url(#SVGID_2_)">
        <g id="DSC_x5F_0112-2.psd_1_" enable-background="new    ">

                <image overflow="visible" width="338" height="532" id="DSC_x5F_0112-2" xlink:href="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4QAYRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/sABFEdWNreQABAAQAAABkAAD/4QNhaHR0cDov
.....SLKPF+7j+acOZPZjmsw4Q0f0L/6k1fu3WFvY/wDEB5o0d7H7/wD7SPFgPzVE54J9/wBI/qez5vei
r/fdeaS//9k=" transform="matrix(0.9818 0 0 0.9818 -2.7197 -11.064)">
            </image>
        </g>
    </g>
</g>
<g>
    <path fill="#FFFFFF" d="M164,328.001L0,164.002L164,0.001l164,164.001L164,328.001z M1.414,164.002L164,326.587l162.586-162.585
        L164,1.415L1.414,164.002z"/>
</g>
</svg>

I have reduced base64 image string, to shorten the code. Full svg can be found here.

UPDATE: Just to be clear, svg shows in the browser(safari) but image is missing (I can see just border).

Answer 1

I ran into this problem where I was using Ajax to load the svg spritesheet onto the page. If I had a on the page before the spritesheet was loaded, it would fail and would not resolve once the spritesheet was avaialble. Any added to the dom after the spritesheet was loaded were fine. I had to delay putting the items in the dom until after the spritesheet finished loading.

This only affected IOS. All other browsers didn't care about the order.