Courtesy of www.rgraph.net

Image to data: url converter

This only works for online images, which are on the [] domain. There's no server-side scripting though, so feel free to put it on your website and use it there. #

Why use data: URLs?

By using data: URLs you reduce the number of HTTP requests needed to display your page since the images are part of the page itself. This does mean though that the images can't be cached (unless of course the page itself is cached). But, if you were to reuse the same image on subsequent pages, they wouldn't be cached. You can get around this though by using some Javascript at the bottom of your page to change the URLs to the real image files. The www.rgraph.net front page uses this technique.

URL:

The data: url: This is where the output URL goes...

A full image tag with the url as the src: This is where the image tag goes...

The image itself using the data: url: