Data in a hurry

[venta]

Dull survey: does your web browser of choice support the data:// scheme, as defined in RFC 2397 ?

Quick check:

If you can see a little picture of a face here, the answer is "yes". If you see some form of red-x/image-not-available thing, that's a "no".



If you could comment, letting me know which browser you're using, that'd be great.

To save an immediate flurry of duplicate comments, IE6 doesn't support it :)

Comments

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Yes: Firefox 0.9.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

As can Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8, known as "Firefox 0.8" to its friends.

Yes

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Nope: IE5.5

Yes

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

Netscape 7.1
mostly due to being Mozilla 5.0

[triskellian]

Yes; Mozilla 1.7 under Windows XP.

[diffrentcolours]

Yep, Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 on Debian GNU/Linux.

I wouldn't be too surprised if it was Mozilla that generated the flurry of duplicate comments...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

Eh ? I've never met Firefox, just heard people talking about it. I didn't realise it was a relative of Mozilla.

[taimatsu]

0.8 supports it too, unsurprisingly.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And slightly relevantly:

Is it possible to get google to search for things which include non-alphanumerics ?

Searching for "data://" seems to be equivalent to searching for "data", which is not very helpful. Escaping the dots and slashes with a \ doesn't work.

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

Best I have come up with is using the word like dotnet or csharp. I also would like to know if there is a method to get the punctiuation. Maybe other engines allow it?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Doesn't look like it, according to the advanced search tips. The closest I've got (in about 1 minute of looking) is to use the inurl: prefix. ie. inurl:data which (amazingly) insists that data is in the URL. But that's 267 million pages, including such things as msdn.microsoft.com/data/

You could try Google hacks. There might even be an appropriate thing in the Sample Hacks?

[chrisvenus]

lynx just sees the alt tag, I'm afraid. :)
No idea whether this means it understands it or not. :)

[chrisvenus]

Oh, and browsers on my computer curerntly include:

IE6, NS4.something, Opera, Firefox, mozilla and possibly some others hidden. If you are really desperate I can kick some of these off (though old NS and opera seem to be the only ones I've not seen above. I have to go through faff to access LJ from work now though (tunnels and proxies) so I'm hoping somebody else will instead... :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

No idea either.

Try clicking here (), and tell me what happens with lynx.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Opera 7.54: Yup.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Safari can see it. :-)

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

But my safari (OSX.2); v1.0 does not!!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Netscape 7 (on Win NT) can see a face.
If the user gets sstonkingly drunk then multiple faces are visible. I don't think that this is a Netscape feature though.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

Mozilla firefox 9.1 is all good, yo.

-= Me

Alas... No.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

Alaso, Ob1 (Off by One, V 3.4a ) web browser does NOT!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

Konqueror 3.1-12 is a no.

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

...but Konqueror 3.2.2 does.

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Firefox 0.9.3 can.
I'm curious as to why one would actually use this, as it seems it can only do the same thing that other code can currently do.

[venta.livejournal.com]

If you use a data URL then you supply the data in the data for the image (or whatever) embedded directly in the URL itself. There is no requirement for further downloading, as there would be if you used an http URL or similar.

So, I could, for example, send you an email which was full of hyperlinks. Once you'd downloaded the mail, you could go off-line but still be able follow all the links. I'm not sure of another way to do this, do you know of one ? I suppose you could attach all the things behind the links as extra files, but that could get rather clumsy.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you have these answers by now, but I've been away for a fortnight and wanted to make it clear I am still about!

XP: IE6: No; Opera: yes
Debian Linux: Mozilla 1.0: yes