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

[diffrentcolours]

Yeah, Mozilla Firefox is a stand-alone browser (and Mozilla Thunderbird is a stand-alone e-mail client), as opposed to the Mozilla Suite which contains the browser ("Navigator"), mail client ("Mail and News"), IRC client and other stuff. Since I use mutt for e-mail and irssi for IRC, I'm only really interested in the browser.

[venta.livejournal.com]

So, in general if someone says "my browser is Mozilla", should I assume they mean Firefox or Navigator ? And is there much difference ? (And is the Navigator related to Netscape at all, which I'm sure used to be called Netscape Navigator at some point in the past.)

'Scuse the ignorance.

[diffrentcolours]

I expect that if somebody says that their browser is Mozilla, then they mean Mozilla Navigator. AFAIK, there isn't much difference from the end-user perspective, since they basically use the same rendering engine for web pages, but there's a lot of difference under-the-hood which makes Firefox quite significantly faster. I belive that the plan is to ditch the Mozilla Suite when Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird all reach 1.0 at which point they will be sufficiently well-integrated.

And yes, Mozilla started out as a re-write of Netscape Navigator - you can learn more in the Mozilla FAQ.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks.

So, in view of that, the answers here basically boil down to: IE doesn't, Mozilla in all its shapes does. Lynx doesn't and Opera does. And Safari does, if you're in MacWorld.

[diffrentcolours]

I wouldn't expect Lynx to handle graphics in data:// URLs, since it doesn't handle graphics at all. It's a text-only browser, there's a screenshot of the Windows version linked from this page.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er, yeah, I know.
But if you potter down to this comment (http://www.livejournal.com/users/venta/106200.html?thread=1312984#t1312984), you can see that we tested it out with a non-graphics data URL.

[diffrentcolours]

Fair enough. I don't really know anything about data:// URLs except that they can be used for inline graphics, so I didn't know that they had any application that lynx could take use of. This will no doubt be bloating HTML e-mail spam the world over when IE supports it properly...