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Why does every webpage not encode its images as base64 data?

• gonzalohm 5mo ago
  Because web browsers support hyperlinking there is no need to embed everything into one big html file
  • amai 5mo ago
    And markdown does also support hyperlinks, like HTML. So it makes sense to use that feature.
    • gonzalohm 5mo ago
      But the comment above asked for support for a feature that allows to embed images inside markdown, hence my reply
• deafpolygon 5mo ago
  load times… much easier to deliver a small html page quickly, then allow progressive downloads on images.