The animate element for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) element is used to animate an attribute or property of an element over time. It's normally inserted inside the element or referenced by the href attribute of the target element.
Animating SVGs can be done by using Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). SMIL allows you to:
- animate the numeric attributes of an element (x, y, ...)
- animate transform attributes (translation or rotation)
- animate color attributes
- follow a motion path
This is done adding an SVG element like inside the SVG element to animate. More on this Mozilla Element/animate and Mozilla SVG animation with SMIL
It was, but is not any more depricated in Chrome.