Posted by Jim Higson on 04/29/06 13:56

Asterbing wrote:

> In article <MPG.1ebc7169813991a1989828@news.tiscali.fr>, no@thanks.org
> says...
>> How to display image data embedded in the html page itself. Seen <img
>> src:"data:image/gif;base64,...">, but it doesn't work in IE. How to do ?
>> What workaround ?
>>
>
> Well, thanks David, Jim and Alan, but it seems it's a no way problem.
> Elsewhere, I've seen some solutions going with <OBJECT> or XBM
> conversion or MIME encapsulation... But I think I'll go to something
> easier like a POST (afraid of GET because of lengh url limitation,
> knowing my largest images may be of 10KB, while smallest 50 bytes) of
> the image data toward a cgi which will sent it back to browser in tne
> framework of an <img> tag.

It's not clear what you're trying to do. Care to share?

--
Jim

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