Posted by Dan Trainor on 08/28/05 02:09

Hello, all -

I've seen a few times, albeit I don't know how, people generate images
on a page in different ways, such as maybe using base64 to output the
raw image data into a page? Is this correct?

If so, what does it "look" like? How would one go about doing this?

If not, what are my options to achieve something like this? What are my
alternatives? What kind of performance impact, if any, does this make
on both the load on the server and the rendering time for a given image
to the client? Last but certainly not least, is this a dumb idea?

What I'm looking to do is to deliver dynamic content to the browser,
without writing images to disk. I simply want what would be written to
disk, be displayed in a specific area I'm talking about.

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. Once I get a few more clues here,
I'll be able to figure the rest of this out pretty well, I'm quite sure.

As always, thanks for the time
-dant

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