Which browsers support data URIs (RFC 2397) and since which version?
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Data URI support status for the five major browsers:
- Chrome, supported in all versions
- Firefox, supported in all versions
- Internet Explorer, supported since 8.0 (however, some restrictions apply)
- Opera, supported since 7.2
- Safari, supported in all versions
Additionally this trick can be used to detect data URI support.
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1IE and Edge support the Data URIs only for the
tag's src attribute. They don't support it for say href attribute of the tag or data attribute of the – VHS Sep 26 '16 at 18:59
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Is this webpage incorrect/incomplete, then? http://caniuse.com/#feat=datauri It is the first result when I Google "data uri browser support". – posfan12 Jan 01 '17 at 00:58
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It also appears to work on many mobile browsers now. This is the best list I've found.

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Every browser on this Earth supports Data URI's except the __ . (You guessed it right - IE 6,7)

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