On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Charles Pritchard <ch...@jumis.com> wrote: > I asked myself the same question, a few minutes after posting my reply. > At this point, I'm really not sure. > > My concern is that the string length for a URL may be limited, > somewhere in the platform. > > If that's the case, a 1 meg data: url would overwhelm the > mechanism leading to the handler. > > But as I've not tested the theory, > I don't have a leg to stand on.
Depending on what you're targeting, that may be a valid concern. Doesn't IE6 have a 1k limit on URLs? This limits what you can pass around with a GET request, for example. ~TJ