835: Automatic data URI generation - Composr CMS feature tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

835	Composr	core	public	2012-09-18 13:13	2012-09-23 22:04

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Chris Graham
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	835: Automatic data URI generation
Description	We could quite easily make a symbol that creates data URIs for theme images, instead of URLs. E.g. $IMG_DATA. This saves on request volume, embedding images directly into the CSS.
Additional Information	Sample code found online... // A few settings $image = 'cricci.jpg'; // Read image path, convert to base64 encoding $imageData = base64_encode(file_get_contents($image)); // Format the image SRC: data:{mime};base64,{data}; $src = 'data: '.mime_content_type($image).';base64,'.$imageData; // Echo out a sample image echo '<img src="',$src,'">';
Tags	Type: Performance
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Chris Graham 2012-09-21 14:37 administrator ~985	NB: There's a 32kb length limit in IE8, so make sure that if that is exceeded a normal URL is put in instead.