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verisimilitude on May 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Onion releases fartscroll.js

Love Base64 encoding... for anyone looking to optimize their CSS, check out Shaun Inman's CSS Cacheer... it can automatically inline images using that encoding: http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2008/05/30/check_out_css_c...

Sorry for slightly OT, but I really do love Base64...

sc00ter on May 9, 2013 [–]

Or if you're on Rails, there's a little-known helper as part of the asset pipeline that will do this for you:

    #logo { background: url(<%= asset_data_uri 'logo.png' %>) }

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