Data URI link <a href="data: doesn't work in Microsoft Edge
This simple code works perfectly everywhere except Microsoft Edge:
<a href="data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,Test">link</a>
In Microsoft Edge I'm getting "That's odd...Microsoft can't find this page" error:
Examples from Mozilla documentation also do not working with the same result.
Here's the output from Edge console:
This error occurs when opening a new edge window, on new tabs it inputs data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,Test as search query into the default search engine.
It seems like Microsoft Edge has no definition for data:
Does anyone know a solution to this?
Update: unfortunately, it seems that there's no way to use data URI in links in IE/Edge. I've created related question about detecting data URI support in links: Detect data URI in links support with Modernizr
Answer
Neither IE nor Microsoft Edge support navigating to data URIs. MSDN claims that this is for security reasons.
The only solution is to link, using a scheme that is supported such as file:// or http://, to some resource that contains the content.
Interestingly enough, older versions of IE (I'm talking older than 6) supported a precursor to data URIs in the about: URI scheme, though only HTML was supported this way. Those URIs no longer work today and simply redirect to "Navigation canceled" (previously "Action canceled").