Gist: How are images uploaded to a gist?

Question

Here is the image file: https://gist.github.com/mbostock/5503544#file-thumbnail-png

I tried to drag-and-drop the image file in the edit mode of a gist. That didn\'t

Answer 1

If you upload an image, try these steps:

• Convert your image into DataURI. For example here on duri.me
• Then this string insert to GIST as a text file

If you want to convert back, there are several options. For example, this: Converting data URI to image data