Recently, looking for a completely unrelated subject I discovered that IE8 now supports the data protocol.
What is a data protocol?
In a few words, it’s a way to embed any data (like GIF images, for example) into text documents such as HTML or CSS. So, instead of linking to an external file, you can do something like this:
HTML
[html]<IMG
SRC=’data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAA wAAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUUlvONmOZtfz gFzByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5yLWGsEbtLiO Spa/TPg7JpJHxyendzWTBfX0cxOnKPjgBzi4diinWGdkF8kjdfnycQZXZeYGejmJlZ eGl9i2icVqaNVailT6F5iJ90m6mvuTS4OK05M0vDk0Q4XUtwvKOzrcd3iq9uisF81 M1OIcR7lEewwcLp7tuNNkM3uNna3F2JQFo97Vriy/Xl4/f1cf5VWzXyym7PHhhx4dbgYKAAA7′
ALT=’Larry’>[/html]