Embedding Base64 Images
Purely out of curiosity, which browsers does Base64 image embedding work in? What I'm referring to is this.
I realize it's not usually a good solution for most things, as it increases the page size quite a bit - I'm just curious.
Some examples:
HTML:
<img alt="Embedded Image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIA..." />
CSS:
div.image {
width:100px;
height:100px;
background-image:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIA...);
}
Answer
Update: 2017-01-10
Data URIs are now supported by all major browsers. IE supports embedding images since version 8 as well.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=datauri
Data URIs are now supported by the following web browsers:
- Gecko-based, such as Firefox, SeaMonkey, XeroBank, Camino, Fennec and K-Meleon
- Konqueror, via KDE's KIO slaves input/output system
- Opera (including devices such as the Nintendo DSi or Wii)
- WebKit-based, such as Safari (including on iOS), Android's browser, Epiphany and Midori (WebKit is a derivative of Konqueror's KHTML engine, but Mac OS X does not share the KIO architecture so the implementations are different), as well as Webkit/Chromium-based, such as Chrome
- Trident
- Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft has limited its support to certain "non-navigable" content for security reasons, including concerns that JavaScript embedded in a data URI may not be interpretable by script filters such as those used by web-based email clients. Data URIs must be smaller than 32 KiB in Version 8[3].
- Data URIs are supported only for the following elements and/or attributes[4]:
- object (images only)
- img
- input type=image
- link
- CSS declarations that accept a URL, such as background-image, background, list-style-type, list-style and similar.
- Internet Explorer 9: Internet Explorer 9 does not have 32KiB limitation and allowed in broader elements.
- TheWorld Browser: An IE shell browser which has a built-in support for Data URI scheme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Web_browser_support