Apparently GIMP doesn't support SVGs. Is there a program just for down-scaling an image and saving it as a .svg? I don't want to have to download InkScape just to save images as .svgs.
if an image wasn't originally an SVG and it was a bitmap it won't work if you try to embed it in a webpage as an SVG.
even when you're not embedding the image it's still a bitmap and still retain it's pixelness.
and yeah, you can open SVGs with gimp but gimp saves bitmaps only from my knowledge.