Josh Haberman wrote: > HTML is probably the most portable document display format after plain > text. However, its use as a document exchange and archival format is > diminished by the inability to embed binary data, most significantly > images. The data URL scheme might be for you. This enables you to embed images in HTML like this: <IMG SRC="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAA ... See RFC 2397. There's an example page in german language at http://selfaktuell.teamone.de/artikel/grafik/inline-images/index.htm The image there is such an inline data stream. Netscape browsers understand this for several versions now. Microsoft browsers up to version 5 didn't understand this, don't know what version 6 thinks about this, but I wouldn't be optimistic. ;-)Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:29:25 GMT
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