Firefox and Chrome won't decode base64 image or pdf files

Question

I\'m trying to decode a base64 encoded images on the browser by using the data uri scheme.

This is what my html looks like:

Answer 1

In fact, even if you supply correct MIME type, Chrome, Firefox and Opera do not support .TIF files natively: they require a plugin to deal with them.

There's a useful summary of browser support for image files here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support