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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [svg embeding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/svg-embeding/)
 *  [daftdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daftdave/)
 * (@daftdave)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/svg-embeding/#post-1822655)
 * I totally agree there is something wrong here.
 * If I insert something like this in the html editor
 *     ```
       <object data="/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/somefile.svg">
           <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/somefile.png" alt="Alt text"/>
         </object>
       ```
   
 * then browsers that support SVG will display the SVG file, and those that don’t
   will display the png version. Granted this won’t work on some very old browsers
   but I bet more browsers support this than support flash, especially given the
   proliferation of mobile browsers over the last few years.
 * That, incidentally, is more or less the way the Wikimedia websites do it.
 * But here goes, I switch to the wysiwyg tab then back to the html and, oh look,
   WordPress has re-written my html to download a macromedia object. That’s just
   plain wrong on two levels:
    1) I don’t want to use flash, for the reasons previously
   explained ie it is NOT universal and it is NOT required for this purpose 2) I
   thought the whole point of the html editor was that it was for _me_ to write 
   the code, but apparently now WordPress can we-write my html for me, to do something
   completely different 3) I go edit post, switch to wysiwyg, switch to html, _haven’t
   made any edits whatsoever_, and yet wordpress has modified the content!
 * Did I say 2 levels? Well I stopped counting at 3. Regardless of flash plugins,
   surely any html I enter manually should be left alone by the wysiwyg editor, 
   unless I edit that particular section explicitly.

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