[Adium-devl] [Adium-svn] rev 22587 - in trunk: Frameworks/AIUtilities Framework/Source Plugins/WebKit Message View

[Peter Hosey]

On Feb 11, 2008, at 14:33:00, evands at adiumx.com wrote:
> Rather than hitting the disk with every message as WebKit reads the  
> user icon to display it, maintaining a cache of the files written- 
> out (writing them out when the chat opens), and so on, let's just  
> feed a base64 encoded data for the image to WebKit.

The reason we chose *not* to do that is because using a data: URL  
puts the image data into memory once per message, or at least once  
per run of messages, in most message view styles. Leaving it on the  
disk keeps it in memory only once, and isn't *that* expensive.

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