[Standards-JIG] Inline Images for JEP-0071: XHTML-IM

[Andrew Plotkin]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2006, at 17:33, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
>>>> http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/XHTML_Inband_Images
>> 
>> Do you prefer that solution to the data: URI?
>
> Both methods are actually best suited for different tasks. Establishing a 
> file transfer has a much larger overhead and latency, and is is likely to 
> fail when using NATs. It's only worth it for larger images. For smaller ones, 
> a reliable in-band transfer is better.

A file-transfer reference allows the client to intelligently cache the 
image. This is, again, worthwhile for larger images.

--Z

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