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17 April 2007 07:30

Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Website - Using Data URLs Effectively with Cascading Style Sheets

Data URLs are a clever way of embedding images in HTML. Instead of linking to an image stored locally on the server, the image is provided within the URL itself as a base64-encoded string of data preceded by a mime-type. In this article I discuss how Data URLs can be effectively used to optimize website loading times and performance.