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The data URI scheme is a URI scheme that provides the ability to include data items in-line in a web page as if they were being referenced as external resources. They tend to be simpler than alternative inclusion methods, such as MIME with cid or mid URIs. Data URIs are a form of Uniform Resource Locators, although they do not actually remotely locate anything. The data URI scheme is defined in RFC 2397 of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Although the IETF published the data URI specification in 1998,[1] they never formally adopted it as a standard.[2] Nonetheless, the HTML 4.01 specification references the data URI scheme[3] and data URIs have now been implemented in most browsers.
