Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: support for data: URI scheme, please?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> > > > > > Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > > Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>
> >> I wonder, is there a chance to get the data: URI scheme supported?
>
> > with a patch, I guess so.
>
>         ACK.  Since it's not a high priority task for me, I'd probably
>         ask my students to try their skills at it first.
>
> > It's not syntactically similar to xml or html, so parsing and
> > rendering it would be a fair amount of work.
>
>         Huh?  After decoding Base64, it's expected to be anything that
>         was encoded, be it XML, HTML, plain text, or whatever else.

I'm talking about the parsing of the tag (perhaps I'm not seeing how 
simple it is), as well as providing a stream for rendering (lynx's notion 
of that is a little crude).

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