This patch provides a new unit tested factory for creating SVG
containers and elements. This code is duplicated twice in the
codebase, but with upcoming changes this would need to be duplicated
even more. Moreover, consolidating this code in one factory allows
us to replace it easily for e.g., supporting Node.js. Therefore, move
this to a central place and update/ES6-ify the related code.
Finally, we replace `setAttributeNS` with `setAttribute` because no
namespace is provided.
