Seriously, this has bugged me for a very long time myself. I don't get why it hasn't been fixed, it's been an issue as long as I can remember, and fortunately, other than at work or my desktop at home, I'm not on windows... My HTPC, which I use for reading more than anything is on Ubuntu, and I recently got a Chromebook as an interim replacement for my stolen MBP.

Though some of the comments mention (rightly) that SVG fonts are larger files than WOFF... they don't seem to take into consideration that SVG, being text/xml can be greatly compressed in transit. I also, REALLY don't get why Google's web fonts' css doesn't give the SVG first to chrome+windows users, so things at least look better there until they fix chrome.