Created around October 2011

Single Pixel Gif as a base 64 encoded string

Single pixel GIF files were a technique to create blocks on a web page which were assured to take up space. In the modern CSS era there is less call for using transparent GIFs like this. A data-encoded image is one which has been encoded such that they are valid image data but don't require a network call.

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