I guess this is just a lost cause. I know that any text in the href without a protocol is assumed to be a relative path if there is no / or protocol. However I was hoping for a way around this as SVG fill transition animations have a bug in Chrome and Safari where they don’t transition if they are inside of a hyperlink with http prepended onto it. They just turn on and turn of.
I’ll just go with the 100% CSS route. This is too much of a headache.
solved How to Nullify An Event Handler/Listener [closed]