[Cosmo-dev] Bug 10304 and base64 encoding

[Matthew Eernisse]

+1 on this -- that is, on doing more benchmarking and having more 
discussion re. base64 encoding in trunk.

The UI already feels pretty slow, and we need to be doing stuff to speed 
it up, not slow it down more. :)

Travis Vachon wrote:
> The base64 changes have been committed to trunk, so my current plan is 
> to _not_ commit the changes proposed here back. This gives us time 
> before 0.8 to get some benchmarks and have a bit more discussion on 
> whether we should go with base64 encoding or a "text/" type attribute 
> for content elements.