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The ticket said use SVG. The real fix was one line somewhere else.

Expert Opinion Jul 21, 2026

The ticket said use SVG. The real fix was one line somewhere else.

A one-line ticket asked me to switch thumbnails from PNG to SVG for better quality. Following it would have opened a stored XSS hole to fix a problem SVG does not even cause. The real cause was resolution, and the fix was one option. Here is how I checked the guess, and why I then did not build the better architecture I had already designed.

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