Rik Cabanier:
There was a discussion in the SVG WG about dropping the SVGAnimatedxxx objects and have replace them with regular values. We would need some tricks so we can change the DOM, but make it backward compatible at the same time.
We have discussed this a few times, and I would desparately love for it to work, but I am unconvinced it will. I can an imagine an author writing code like: if (!elt.className) ... to test if a class has been set. Even if we made the SVGElement.className SVGAnimatedString object one that stringifies to the class, add a [PutForwards] on to it so that assigning a string works, it would still break the above code, since the ! operator always returns false for an object.
