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   Re: [xml-dev] OT: data url scheme

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From: "Rick Marshall" <rjm@zenucom.com>
> you learn something every day - this is cool
>
> so i click on the url below and read the rfc. then write the following
> simple html page (not 100% pure, but good enough to test)
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <IMG
>    SRC="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAAw
>    AAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUUlvONmOZtfzgFz
>    ByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5yLWGsEbtLiOSp
>    a/TPg7JpJHxyendzWTBfX0cxOnKPjgBzi4diinWGdkF8kjdfnycQZXZeYGejmJl
>    ZeGl9i2icVqaNVailT6F5iJ90m6mvuTS4OK05M0vDk0Q4XUtwvKOzrcd3iq9uis
>    F81M1OIcR7lEewwcLp7tuNNkM3uNna3F2JQFo97Vriy/Xl4/f1cf5VWzXyym7PH
>    hhx4dbgYKAAA7"
>    ALT="Larry">
> <a href="data:,A%20brief%20note">note</a>
>
> </body>
> </html>

Oh no! No good can come of this. I predict the end of the web-as-we-know-it.
Or at the very least, text-only email. Who will be able to resist these
seductive images? ;-}

> and it works like a charm in mozilla 1.4, and galeon something; but not
> the text based lynx :(

There is no permanent safety in a retreat to lynx. See
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~saha/graphics_lib/halloween.

Bob Foster

> rick
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:53, Jim Ancona wrote:
> > bryan wrote:
> > > Okay it seems that Mozilla implements the data url scheme,
> > > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2397.txt I'm somewhat unclear on this
> > > though, it seems to me that the implementation is wrong from reading
the
> > > text of the rfc, if I have the data url  data:,A%20brief%20note as
shown
> > > in the rfc I suppose that when a link with that url is clicked on that
a
> > > new virtual document should be created and the value of the data
> > > fragment is written to this document.body
> > >
> > > Instead Mozilla opens up a dialoque box asking me if I want to open
this
> > > file using another file. Tried to choose to open it with notepad but
it
> > > didn't seem to work.
> >
> > When I clicked on the URL in your message above, Mozilla 1.4 (Win32)
> > opened up a page with the text "A brief note" displayed. Perhaps you ran
> > into a bug that's been fixed?
> >
> > Jim





 

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