vasa1
January 14th, 2011, 03:54 AM
http://news.google.com/ has a lot of the images presented as URIs (uniform resource identifiers) but more commonly called URLs even though nothing is to be located.
These data URLs are part of the html page that you download to your computer each time you access a page containing them. You cannot prevent them from being downloaded at your expense if you wish to view the page. You may be able to block the display (presumably by using element hiders) but you have paid for the download.
The length of the data URLs can be a bit of a concern:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/data_URIs
-{ Quote: "Although Mozilla supports data URIs of essentially unlimited length, browsers are not required to support any particular maximum length of data. For example, the Opera 11 browser limits data URIs to around 65000 characters. " }-
And just today, I came across this issue (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=69227, in which people were talking rather unconcernedly about data URLs of 2 MB (comment 9) and 5 MB (comment 13).
These data URLs are part of the html page that you download to your computer each time you access a page containing them. You cannot prevent them from being downloaded at your expense if you wish to view the page. You may be able to block the display (presumably by using element hiders) but you have paid for the download.
The length of the data URLs can be a bit of a concern:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/data_URIs
-{ Quote: "Although Mozilla supports data URIs of essentially unlimited length, browsers are not required to support any particular maximum length of data. For example, the Opera 11 browser limits data URIs to around 65000 characters. " }-
And just today, I came across this issue (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=69227, in which people were talking rather unconcernedly about data URLs of 2 MB (comment 9) and 5 MB (comment 13).