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amai | on: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Why does every webpage not encode its images as base64 data?
gonzalohm | parent | next
Because web browsers support hyperlinking there is no need to embed everything into one big html file
amai | root | parent
And markdown does also support hyperlinks, like HTML. So it makes sense to use that feature.
gonzalohm | root | parent
But the comment above asked for support for a feature that allows to embed images inside markdown, hence my reply
deafpolygon | parent
load times… much easier to deliver a small html page quickly, then allow progressive downloads on images.