Base64 images in Web Applications
Web essentials has this really cool feature that allows you to convert your images to base64 on the fly which at the time it was a very new concept to me. I had no idea that you could use a string of data in place of the url but right from the start I got the impression that it wasn't very efficient. Not only that but I was pretty sure that anything less than IE10 was going to cry about it. My experience and gut were right, now IE support aside this is still a really cool ability to have but I did some research still to see if it really wasn't efficient. Which also appeared to be true, but I didn't test that myself. Still the reason behind why I might use this feature would be when you have a small web application and for whatever reason you need all the resources to be inline with the html. A better scenario is if the whole html page was being placed in a xml as cdata. I've actually had to do this before with an Google Hangout application.
Resources
php - What are the risks of using data:image/jpeg;base64? - Stack Overflow
html - Embedding Base64 Images - Stack Overflow
XML CDATA
Resources
php - What are the risks of using data:image/jpeg;base64? - Stack Overflow
html - Embedding Base64 Images - Stack Overflow
XML CDATA