I am having issues with google chrome not rendering svg with an img tag. This happens when refreshing the page and initial page load. I can get the image to show up by \"
i came here because i had the same problem, when i inspect the element i can see the file, but on the site i can't (even when using localhost)
the answer to my problem was in saving the SVG file.
If you saved it from illustrator make sure to click 'embed' and not 'link'. as link will just refer to your local files rather than include the data (If i understand it correctly).
I read about it on the adobe website which has some other useful tips for exporting http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2013/09/exporting-svg-illustrator.html
This worked for me, hope it was useful.