images on the web

[chris]

On Jun 20, 1:52 am, Michael Ströder <mich... at stroeder.com> wrote:
> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> > Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> >> You could use data: URIs [1].
>
> >> For example, a 43-byte single pixel GIF becomes this URI:
>
> >> <data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FyH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw%3D%3D>
>
> >> They don't have universal browser support, but that might not be a
> >> problem in this case.
>
> >> As for generating them with Python, I'm not sure... I just used Hixie's
> >> data: URI kitchen [2] for the above example.
>
> >> [1] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397>
> >> [2] <http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data>
>
> > Oh.. As <http://bitworking.org/news/Sparklines_in_data_URIs_in_Python>
> > shows, the reason I couldn't find a data: URI Python library is because
> > they're utterly trivial to generate:
>
> > import base64
> > import urllib
>
> > raw_data = create_gif()
> > uri = 'data:image/gif;base64,' + urllib.quote(base64.b64encode(raw_data))
>
> > (And it's even simpler if you leave out the base64-encoding.)
>
> The caveat with URL schema data: is that the amount of data to be
> transferred is significantly higher than including HTML tag <img src="">
> in your HTML source and let the browser fetch the raw binary image data
> in a separate HTTP request (you also have to serve from your web
> application).
>
> Ciao, Michael.

This sounds like the way I want to go, it's just a matter of figuring
it out. Is it just a matter of putting a function call in an img tag?

 I'll give the URI thing a try, too,