Data URIs and MSIE
Wednesday, 16. May 2007, 14:42:54
No match.
Bloody briljant. In 1998 some people came up with a way of enclosing a file source into an HTML or CSS file so you wouldn’t need to link to an outside file.
Where does this come in handy?
Well in all those pretty e-mails of course, sent to you by a handful of spammers and a friend or two. We can now send the pretty image we wish to show as part of the HTML itself, so we don’t need to perform dirty tricks like cross-referencing attachments or bypassing network firewalls.
Makes rich-text e-mails safe again.
Guess which browser doesn’t support Data URI’s?
Yup, the world’s most used one. Thank you, Microsoft, for refusing to improve the security of your systems since 1998.
Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme
Specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397
Bloody briljant. In 1998 some people came up with a way of enclosing a file source into an HTML or CSS file so you wouldn’t need to link to an outside file.
Where does this come in handy?
Well in all those pretty e-mails of course, sent to you by a handful of spammers and a friend or two. We can now send the pretty image we wish to show as part of the HTML itself, so we don’t need to perform dirty tricks like cross-referencing attachments or bypassing network firewalls.
Makes rich-text e-mails safe again.
Guess which browser doesn’t support Data URI’s?
Yup, the world’s most used one. Thank you, Microsoft, for refusing to improve the security of your systems since 1998.
Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme
Specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397
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