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But what's more taxing -- more requests, or fewer requests but containing 33% larger data because it's base64-encoded and inlined?
And if the image is cached, after the first fetch it would be free.
Doesn't make sense.
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Anonymous2011-03-24 3:41
Look, maybe they just want error pages to be self-contained. Imagine if there was some kind of system failure and the index page gave everyone a 404. How embarrassing would it be if that 404 page wouldn't display right because the embedded image was also 404'd?
The truly awesome part is that the logo on the error page is supplied both inline (as the background for all a tags) and externally (as an img in an a tag).