Include an SVG (hosted on GitHub) in MarkDown

Question

I know with that an image can be placed in a MD with the MD syntax of either ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) or ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional

Answer 1

rawgit.com solves this problem nicely. For each request, it retrieves the appropriate document from GitHub and, crucially, serves it with the correct Content-Type header.