So far it seems like it is not fluent, but choppy. E.g. if you have one state attribute with font-size: 14 and want to animate to state with font-size: 16, the
I think scaling the path up would be easier and smoother, like:
text.hover(function() { text.animate({transform: "s1.5 1.5 "}, 400); }, function() { text.animate({transform: "s1.0 1.0 "}, 400); });
See http://jsfiddle.net/SeeG2/40/ for details.