Easiest css for Facebook style “red” notifications

Question

I need a facebook style notification, but getting something that looks nice cross browser seems tricky. For example, different browsers seem to treat paddings differently,

Answer 1

I am sure that the answers about absolute positioning are correct. For the sake of experiment, I tried to make an SVG-only solution. The result is far from ideal, maybe someone knows a more elegant solution to a similar svg puzzle? :)

http://jsfiddle.net/gLdsco5p/3/