- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:02:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Adrian Bateman wrote: > > [filedata:] > > There is a limit on the size of data-uris in IE8 (32K I think). I expect > addressing this will be a higher priority than a new handler but I agree > that copying around large strings is problematic. One of the main use cases Google has in mind here is local preview of images and videos. Given a 5MB image file, we're talking about a 6MB URL. With a 1GB video, we're talking about a 1.3GB URL. Even if the 6MB URL is feasible... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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