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by DelaneyM 898 days ago
That’s the one! Data URL! Thanks. :)

The primary way we used it was as the body of a tracking gif, returned as binary. But we also used it as a spacer here and there inline in HTML using the data URI. When embedding in HTML the file size is mostly relevant for brevity.

Wow, that takes me way back.