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I am curious, why not just use a data-uri and inline the image?

I don't mean to be mean, but someone who is just now thinking of converting an image to a table in 2012 probably doesn't know about data URIs.

I'm guessing the forum simply blocks all img tags

If you have javascript and don't worry about supporting IE 7, you can possibly defeat any kind of blocking logic that looks for the '<img' tag.