Patrik,
Yes, data-uris for images have been viable since about 2010. (2006 for
Firefox, 2009 for IE, 2010 for Chrome)
However, I thought your main thrust in this thread was to discuss what
you might do before the IFS was added to the IBM i (which was around
1994.) So I'm not sure that data uris make sense, here... sure you
can use them to avoid the IFS now, but not historically...
Honestly, I don't think too many people ever served a web site on IBM i
back then. The TCP/IP that the OS had prior to V3R1 was very
rudamentary... and IBM didn't provide an HTTP server, so you would've
had to write your own (or buy a 3rd-party one, perhaps.)
I suspect that pretty much anyone who did that would've used DLO for
image files.
Technically, you could use a BLOB instead (as Raul demonstrated, though,
again, his code was much more modern than 1994). Likewise, you could ue
something like a USRSPC to store image data in a library... but it
would've been awkward to administer, because in order to add/replace
pictures on your site, you'd need someone with the technical know-how to
convert those pictures into user spaces, et al.
Frankly, though... I didn't know anyone doing that sort of thing back
then, it just wasn't a common need! People hosting HTTP servers weren't
as commonplace, the TCP/IP support was limited, support for things like
stream files was somewhat limited, etc. It just didn't happen.
On 8/18/23 11:05 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
No worries! Meanwhile I found that you can indeed imbed images into a
HTML page:
<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,put-raw-base64-data-here">
All halfway recent browsers know this extension. Notable exception… tadaa! Some older releases of IE.
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