svg as a spescial case for image

[Aslak Raanes]

SVG starts to become more useful in browsers like Firefox, OmniWeb, 
Opera and soon Safari. There is a couple problem. Since no browser 
support svg embedded with img one need to fall back to html from:

     <object data="/path/to/img.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
     width="512" height="384">Alt text</object>

Second, one need to write the width and height for most cases of svg to 
make them scale correctly. (This, I think can be considered to be a bug 
in some of the current browser implementations)

Making object as a specielt case for svg-images would be nice, but one 
probably need some way to set the size of the image to make it practical.

I didn't find if this has been discussed in the archive before, but how 
about adding size in the syntax. I.e. in addition to:

     ![Alt text](/path/to/img.svg)

     ![Alt text](/path/to/img.svg "Optional title")

One could write:

     ![Alt text](/path/to/img.svg "Optional title" 512x384)

and:

     [id]: /path/to/img.svg "Optional title attribute" 512x384




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Aslak Raanes
<http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~aslakr/> <xmpp:aslakr at gmail.com>