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Data URIs [1] work nicely in CKEditor for images, except for Micro$oft .. IE7 can't display them, and IE8 limits them to 32KB

As a workaround, it would be nice if CKEditor could display an informative placeholder image in IE7, or if > 32KB, in IE8. Is this feasible?

Googling 'data base64 image src workaround' suggests several other solutions, one of which is mhtml [3]. I haven't tried this yet, but if it works, then a placeholder image would only be required to catch the case where IE was served data:

thanks .. Jason

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848897(VS.85).aspx
[3] http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-and-under/