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> Unfortunately browsers don't allow those in image contexts

The fact that we have the <img> element at all is bad. HTML has since the early days a perfectly capable <object> which can even be nested to provide fallback, but browser support was always spotty.

The Acid2 test famously used <object> to shame browser vendors into supporting it at least to some extent.



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