Web Export: External URLs and Embedded Images

Working on a project that I was planning on using Inky's Web Export for, but have run into two issues:

1. Inserting a URL gets hung up at the // in https:// and doesn't get exported to the json, thus not appearing in the web output
2. Inserting an image with the img tag results in the same issue

I have tried escaping these characters but it doesn't prevent the issues to json export. I know the exact syntax from Inklewriter would not work, but it was really easy to place links and images into a story and that is my ultimate goal. I've tried manually editing the json but no luck.