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How about MIME? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME * ASCII encoded / support for other character sets * Mixed media * Stan
by gvb 11y ago
How about MIME? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
* ASCII encoded / support for other character sets
* Mixed media
* Standard
* Battle tested
- frik 11y agoseveral browsers and email programs support MIME incl IE9-11 (.mht), Opera (12?) It's called MHTL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mht
- scholia 11y agoYou can also add MHTML support to Firefox and probably Chrome...
- hackuser 11y agoGood question. Can anyone say why it's not more widely used for this purpose?
- gvb 11y agoInefficiency and effort involved. 1. Encoding and decoding the data takes time and code. 2. The encoding expands binary by 4/3 (three bytes are encoded into four) 3. Duplication - e.g. if the same image is included in N places it will (likely) get encoded and stored N times, costing time (encode/decode) and space. Like everything, it is a trade-off.