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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

On 2020-03-16, at 15:58, Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti AT garr.it> wrote:

data:image/gif;base64
data:image/ico;base64
data:image/jpeg;base64
data:image/jpg;base64
data:image/png;base64
data:image/pngl;base64
data:image/vnd.microsoft.icon;base64
data:image/x-icon;base64

Plus a comma in each case ;-)

Good to know all the cases we currently use, though.

Couldn't we just ignore those bytes or am I overlooking something?

I don't think you're really missing anything. My point was simply that if you want standardise something based on file sizes, you need to take that variation into account.

It's also slightly harder to say (and to code) "A data: URL that is more than X bytes when stripped of its prefix up to and including the 'base64,', then converted from Base64 to binary" than it is to say "Any URL that is more than X bytes." But it's obviously not very much harder (except for someone coding this up in XSLT, but I don't know how many people other than myself are that masochistic).

    -- Ian

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