demo · v137
Sprite router
Compare the old anchor-fragment href with the new bare-URL form, then point both at any SVG on the open web. The right lane uses Chrome 137’s rule that an href without a fragment now resolves to the document’s root element.
If both lanes look identical your browser already supports the bare form. The left lane forces the fragment-stripped URL through a slot that doesn’t add a fallback, so older engines render an empty frame.
An older asset bakes in a known id, e.g. #root, or you ship a wrapper <symbol> per file.
Chrome 137 resolves the URL to the file’s root <svg> automatically — no per-asset id, no symbol wrapper.
icon set demo
One <use> per tile, each pointing at a different bare SVG URL. No fragments anywhere. Drop new icons into a folder and they render without editing the source files.
the code
<!-- Before -->
<svg><use href="/icons/star.svg#root" /></svg>
<!-- After (Chrome 137+) -->
<svg><use href="/icons/star.svg" /></svg>The browser resolves the bare URL to whatever element is the document root of the referenced SVG. Practically, that’s the outermost <svg> of every standalone icon you author — the same element you’d normally have to give an id to.