Tell HN: Turn small images to html for fun

2 points by ff0066mote 16y ago ↗ HN

I just made this small thing for fun. Please enjoy! I place it in the public domain. Python code follows. (Sorry about the newlines not coming through)

from sys import argv from base64 import b64encode from os.path import split, splitext

ifn = argv[1] alt, ext = splitext(ifn) ext = ext.lstrip('.') ofn = alt+'.html' alt = split(alt)[1]

ifd = open(ifn, 'rb') ofd = open(ofn, 'wb')

ofd.write( '<img src="data:image/{0};base64,{1}" alt="{2}" />'.format(ext, b64encode(ifd.read()), alt))

ifd.close() ofd.close()

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aufreak3 16y ago ↗

Gimp lets you export images into HTML tables :) It even asks you whether you're sane and really want to do it!

ff0066mote 16y ago ↗

Photoshop does that too. This method is different because it uses the data URI scheme to encode the (small) image as base64 data in the <img /> tag. No tables here!