Perhaps this quite recent FPWD can provide some clarity around the concepts?
http://www.w3.org/TR/svg-integration/
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> > Given that, consider two scenarios:
> >
> > A. 'https://example.com/image.jpg' which redirects to
> > 'https://evil.com/image.jpg'
> > B. 'https://example.com/image.svg' which loads '
> https://evil.com/image.jpg'
> >
> > If we disallow A, why would we allow B?
>
> I don't think Gecko allows SVG-as-image to load other resources as
> that would be less "safe" than <img>. It's a minor privacy violation.
> Again, the problem here is that SVG-as-image is not a well defined
> concept.
>
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