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@@ -16,3 +16,24 @@ The 'img' plugin also seems to not support SVGs.
 > I suppose the other option would be converting the svg file to a static
 > image (png). The img plugin could probably do that fairly simply.
 > --[[Joey]]
+
+>> This seems to have improved since; at least chromium can display svg
+>> images from `<img>` tags. Firefox 3.5.19 did not in my testing.
+>>
+>> So, svgs can now be included on pages by linking to them, or by using
+>> the img directive. The most portable thing is to use the img directive
+>> plus some size, which forces them to be resized and a png to actually
+>> be displayed.
+>>
+>> I have not yet tried to do anything with sanitizing them. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> I'm working on inline SVG and MathML support in ikiwiki and I've
+>> modified my htmlscrubber to sanitize SVG and MathML using the
+>> whitelists from html5lib.  Here's a [patch][].  I've also made some
+>> notes about this here: [[todo/svg]].
+>> 
+>> I suspect that this bug may have caught the eye of anyone interested
+>> in this sort of thing.  I'll elaborate a bit on my user page to avoid
+>> getting off-topic here. --[[JasonBlevins]], October 21, 2008
+
+ [patch]: http://xbeta.org/gitweb/?p=xbeta/ikiwiki.git;a=blobdiff;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm;h=3c0ddc8f25bd8cb863634a9d54b40e299e60f7df;hp=3bdaccea119ec0e1b289a0da2f6d90e2219b8d66;hb=fe333c8e5b4a5f374a059596ee698dacd755182d;hpb=be0b4f603f918444b906e42825908ddac78b7073