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		iso8859-1 on Dec 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing filer.js Isn't there a binary storage option? I don't wanna Base64 encode everything... Seems ridiculous.

ntkachov on Dec 28, 2011 [–]

Nope. Probably something to do with security. But everything needs to be string. It works well for everything other than images.

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