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Does IE 9 support Base64 image encoding?

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Do you mean base64 encode data:uri ? IE8 supports it with limitations - the data can only be max 32K. So, IE9 would definitely support it.

See the wikiepedia article on this subject.

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are you sure that ie9 will support base64 image encoding? –  Tushar Ahirrao Apr 13 '10 at 12:02
Pretty sure. I am confident they won't go back on a feature that was implemented in IE8, and that all the other browsers already support without restriction. –  Sripathi Krishnan Apr 13 '10 at 12:07

As IE 9 is not released yet (just beta version) we cannot strongly say Yes but if nothing changes until its release date, it will support it.

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Update: IE9 has been released and supports base64 encoding without the 32kb limit that was imposed upon ie8. –  starbeamrainbowlabs Jan 5 '13 at 18:23

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