How to export svg images as <img ...> in html export

Question

Normally, when I export to html an org-mode buffer that contains a link to an image, the link is coverted to a proper html <img...>. However, if that image has a .svg extension, it is exported as an <object...> instead.

How do I prevent this?

For instance, the following link:

[[file:https://clojars.org/malabarba/lazy-map/latest-version.svg]]

gets exported like this:

<object type="image/svg+xml" data="https://clojars.org/malabarba/lazy-map/latest-version.svg" >
Sorry, your browser does not support SVG.</object>

But I'd like it to be exported like this:

<img src="https://clojars.org/malabarba/lazy-map/latest-version.svg">

Answer 1

Using a :fallback attribute almost does it:

#+ATTR_HTML: :fallback /tmp/toto.svg
[[file:/tmp/toto.svg]]

is exported as:

<div class="figure">
<p><object type="image/svg+xml" data="file:///tmp/toto.svg" >
<img src="/tmp/toto.svg"  /></object>
</p>
</div>

Otherwise, it seems easy to redefine or advice org-html--format-image in ox-html.el (for some reason, it treats svg's specially).