The advantage comes if you are displaying the image through a web browser - you can put in the URL for the image and let the webview handle concurrent image loading.
I still went the other way, for other reasons, but that is one of the advantages. The other is database file size. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Tom Glod wrote: > > so I base encode the binary variable and then save it in a text field in > table. no problems and no bs ever. > > > Others do this also. I'm curious from an "uber architecture" point of view, > what pros there are to keeping the image data in a base encoded form in the > data base versus just keeping a file.jpg on disk? > > BR > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
