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Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote on 28 jul 2014 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> In comp.lang.javascript, Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> wrote:
>> Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> wrote on 27 jul 2014 in 
>> comp.lang.javascript:
>> > Can someone please provide an example of loading a binary image file 
>> All image files are binary, surly?
> 
> Not in the slightest. Postscript (eg Adobe Illustrator files) is, like
> the proposed scenario, usually just text, but sometimes has ASCII-fied
> binary or compressed text portions. Postscript usually uses base85
> encoding, though. SVG is XML. Have you heard of "typewriter art"? It was
> later reborn as "ASCII art" when computers became popular. Many older
> Unix image formats are text based. Xfig saves as text. The xpm files are
> syntactically pure C code.

Imagem, seen that way, is an ill-defined entity.

Text is also binary, in the sense of a file or a datastream.

>> Methinks you cannot find the answer, because the Q is not exact.
> 
> With computers, stating the problem correctly is often 90% to seeing the
> solution. (And the 10% of the time its finding out the problem cannot be
> solved.)

Indeed, you could say in thos cases the problem ceases to exist.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-27 10:23 +0800
  Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-27 09:44 +0200
    Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-27 17:03 +0800
      Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-27 14:35 +0200
      Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2014-07-28 10:55 +0200
        Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-28 18:09 +0800
          Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2014-07-28 16:22 +0200
        Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-28 21:55 +0200
          Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2014-07-28 20:00 -0700
          Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-29 13:51 +0200
    Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-07-28 05:54 +0000
      Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-28 10:05 +0200
  Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-27 11:06 +0000
    Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-28 18:04 +0800
  Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-07-27 10:46 -0700
    Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-27 19:57 +0200
      Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-07-27 12:25 -0700
        Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-07-27 12:32 -0700
        Re: How to load binary image with Javascript with NO BASE64 conversion "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-07-27 21:58 +0200

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