Fixed Base64 Data-URI & Minify CSS

[XẹnPixel]

If "Minify CSS" is enabled and having a "large" base64 data URIs in CSS, it cannot process the CSS.

I encounter this issue when I'm using icon fonts and embed them in CSS with data URIs.

Same bug, test case and solution: https://code.google.com/p/minify/issues/detail?id=300

 

[eberkund]

Not that this is a solution to the bug, but you really do not want to embed an entire icon font using base 64 because it does not allow the browser to cache what is a completely static asset. In this case the extra HTTP request is worth it.

 

[Mike]

I would say that embedding a huge file in the CSS is unlikely to be particularly beneficial, especially with the extra size overhead of base 64 encoding.

That said, I have worked around this for this particular case.