NEW 7120
API Request: creating DOMHTMLImageElements from NSImages 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7120
Summary API Request: creating DOMHTMLImageElements from NSImages
David Smith
Reported 2006-02-06 21:48:12 PST
Currently there is no way of displaying an NSImage from a Cocoa program in a WebView (such as buddy icons in Adium's webkit message view) except writing it out to a file, creating a DOMHTMLImageElement, and setting the src attribute to the path of the image file. It would be both more convenient and more efficient to have a way of directly using the NSImage to create the DOMHTMLImageElement.
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 1 2006-02-06 22:59:04 PST
Well, it's also possible to uuencode the image data, and set the src as a data url. But I agree, that's pretty inelegant.
Peter Hosey
Comment 2 2006-03-22 00:17:48 PST
(In reply to comment #1) > Well, it's also possible to uuencode the image data, and set the src as a data url. Not really that practical in Adium's WKMV. A buddy icon may appear hundreds of times in a single chat (most message-view styles have the buddy icon once per contiguous run of messages; such runs are usually small, 1-2 messages typically). Depending on the icon, that's a lot of data to add into memory each time. A way to do a proper image reference would conserve huge amounts of memory versus that solution, because it could take advantage of caching.
Stanislas Polu
Comment 3 2013-01-14 23:41:22 PST
Just FYI this would be a very nice feature to add to the API.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 4 2013-01-15 09:57:22 PST
> it's also possible to uuencode the image data, and set the src as a data url Alternatively, the client could serve image data using a custom protocol.
Stanislas Polu
Comment 5 2013-01-15 10:48:21 PST
(In reply to comment #4) > Alternatively, the client could serve image data using a custom protocol. Can you elaborate on that?
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