mascots unable to use local picture links

[yarrmateys]

considering the custom made ones are likely going to remain on the user's pc, would it be possible to make the script use a local link like file:///D:/mascots/mascot.png or similar, or is this a browser limitation of some sort that those don't work?

[zixaphir]

I'm not exactly sure why local file URIs don't work.

[zixaphir]

Yeah, browser thing: http://www.websina.com/bugzero/kb/browser-file-url.html

[CharAznableLoNZ]

Perhaps a home server could host the images, if you really want to keep the traffic local. I put all mine up on imgur and don't worry about it.

[yarrmateys]

yeah, i mostly wanted to use that for testing, but i guess i can use dropbox for that.

[ccd0]

You could also use data URIs. http://bran.name/dump/data-uri-generator/