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True, however the whole point of dedicated image hosting is preventing rot i.e. cases where the original host is down, then the image is lost forever.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Dec 3, 2012 at 9:59
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No I understand this, I just wanted to point out its still possible to show an svg. Would be nice if I could just paste the SVG code directly into a post (maybe you can but nothing I tried worked) but I could see the xml code taking up a lot of space on more complicated images
– WebChemist
Commented Dec 3, 2012 at 10:01
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Ideally, the StackExchange websites would provide the hosting services.
– bgoodr
Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 5:59
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Modern browsers will let you view inline svg xml right in the html, so its not like it would really need its own SO svg hosting service, they would just need to tweak the way posted svg code is shown... but easier said then done when you have to prevent XSS and that sort of stuff. Example of inline svg code in html: jsfiddle.net/webchemist/c6E7w
– WebChemist
Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 6:23
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Here, have a bounty for actually demonstrating a working method of using SVG on SE (even if it does require using a third-party image host).
– Ilmari Karonen
Commented Dec 26, 2014 at 12:45
@WebChemist I accidentally edited this post when trying to correct a different one. Would you please roll-back my change? Thank-you
– user9869932
Commented Jan 19, 2016 at 10:00
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I can't see the image at the moment—I just see a "broken image" icon. That's ironic, isn't it?
– Craig McQueen
Commented Apr 28, 2016 at 2:22
@CraigMcQueen looks like wikimedia took down that map, fixed it with a different svg source
– WebChemist
Commented Apr 29, 2016 at 0:15
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Images only work with HTTPS on Stack Exchange, and I haven't found any HTTPS site to host images that supports SVG.
– Donald Duck
Commented Mar 23, 2017 at 12:53
@DonaldDuck gist.github.com supports SVG. The mobile view on Github doesn't display a preview, but the desktop view does. Eg, see here.
– PM 2Ring
Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 15:21

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