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From: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] <img> vs <object> in HTML export
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On 2014-01-09 16:10, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Exporting this to HTML produces <img> tags like this:
> 
> ,----
> | <div class="figure">
> | <p><img src="foo.svg" alt="foo.svg" />
> | </p>
> | </div>
> |
> |
> | <div class="figure">
> | <p><img src="foo.png" alt="foo.png" />
> | </p>
> | </div>
> `----
> 
> I attach a patch[fn:1] that changes these to <object> tags (the patch 
> is
> proof-of-concept only, not meant for integration into org core - it'll
> need a fair amount of work before that happens, if it ever happens.)
> With the patch, the relevant output is changed to this:
> 
> ,----
> | <div class="figure">
> | <p><object data="foo.svg" type="image/svg+xml"> </object>
> | </p>
> | </div>
> |
> |
> | <div class="figure">
> | <p><object data="foo.png" type="image/png"> </object>
> | </p>
> | </div>
> `----
> Open questions
> Do I have this right? I'm neither an SVG nor an HTML expert. If there 
> is
> another way to do what I want, please let me know.
> 
> Do most browsers support <object> tags? Do they do the right thing with
> images in <object> tags?

> BTW, I tried using

> <object data="foo.png" type="image/png"/>

This does not work because the close tag is required according to the
spec (like a script tag).

 From a quick read on the interwebs, yes, it seems that <object> is an
html4 specification. One problem with your solution, is that <object>
does not allow an 'alt' attribute

The problem w/ <img src='foo.svg"/> according to my reading, is that
it is not officially supported, and is only incidentally supported by
the browsers (but, as you can see, without svg interactivity).

I thing the solution is to use an <object> tag for svg, but an <img>
tag for the rest. It might also make sense to just inline the svg?

see:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html#SVG_in_HTML
for an interesting writeup on the issues.

rick