Does every browser support base64 encoded images embedded in css?

cstuder · on March 2, 2011

Almost every browser. Guess which ones don't.

(I'll give you a hint: It's MSIE 6 and 7.)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Web_browser_sup...

beaumartinez · on March 2, 2011

I don't think the older ones do; however, I'm sure Google gives them a different 404 page (change your User-Agent to IE6 and see how different the search results HTML is).

joshfinnie · on March 2, 2011

We unfortunate users of IE6 get the new 404 page as well. I assume they just gave up on IE6 like most of the web-world has.

treeface · on March 2, 2011

Yep here's what I see on our IE6 death machine:

http://i.imgur.com/bTXtn.png

elliottcarlson · on March 3, 2011

Which could be another indication why the Google logo itself is linked (besides it being in cache as well). The page degrades well imho in IE6 - the lack of the cutsey robot isn't essential to the page - the logo however is.