cloudhead/less.js — pull request #775 by gorakhargosh (2012-04-19 09:35:48+00:00)
Title: data-uri: adds `inline-image()` to embed data-URIs

The "inline-image" function reads images, encodes them
using base64 encoding, and embeds them into the generated
CSS files as data-URIs.

More about data-URIs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

This causes a significant reduction in the number of
HTTP requests sent although it increases the size of the
resulting CSS code. Multiple occurrences of the same data-URI
are easily handled by server-side GZIP compression and hence
redundancy should not be a drawback for the majority of the
client audience.

The original author of this patch is:
Marc Boeker