Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@lrde.epita.fr> writes: > In Org 9.5, SVG images started being exported by the HTML exporter as > <img> rather than <object>. > > The patch causing that was > https://list.orgmode.org/87k0pemj6d....@gmail.com/T/ > with two arguments: > 1) <object> do not have an alt attribute > 2) <object> will not render some SVG file correctly if it has no viewBox > (I'm assuming that the issue shown in that message is a missing viewBox). > > The reason I've noticed this change is that it broke my web pages. On > my pages, I use SVG to display many automata, and they all share a > common stylesheet. That stylesheet is not inlined into the SVG, rather, > it is a separate file included in the SVG files with > <?xml-stylesheet href="filename.css" type="text/css"?> > so that the browser only need to download it once. > > Infortunately, <img> does not allow external stylesheets to be > processed, so my stylesheets are now ignored. Note that one can also > build SVG images that include other SVG images, or SVG images that have > animations that start when you hover on some elements. All those > usages would break with <img>. > > I've seen that very issue was discussed back in 2016 > https://list.orgmode.org/871t2iq353....@iki.fi/T/ > where Christian Moe pointed out exactly this: > >> (2) You can also do other things with <object> that you cannot with >> <img>, like manipulating the SVG with Javascript and styling it with >> an external stylesheet (linked from the SVG, not the web page). > > So in the interest of allowing users to build documents where SVG > files are not static, self-contained images, it seems to me that Org > probably needs some way to specify whether SVG images should be > exported as <img> or <object> (or maybe even inlined).
Confirmed. This is clearly a regression and should be fixed. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>