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by kpreid 5584 days ago
Base64 isn't exactly efficient. (Though it might be more efficient than an additional HTTP request. But if so, why aren't they using it for the homepage logo, say?) I wonder if they're using it as non-useless padding for stopping the IE-overrides-too-short-404s behavior.
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Base64 is ok when the response is gzipped