WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO FIND?!
Original answer comes from the blessed stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246801/how-can-you-encode-to-base64-using-javascript/247261#247261
The “btoa(…)” and “atob(…)” functions are the answer. The names are as bad as they come these days, and impossible to find. When dealing with extension development, this sure beats having to include a stupid Base64Encode script to do the job with worse performance.
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Tim Valenta
Amateur at everything, coder, UI designer, musician, and writer. I break things apart and re-program them from scratch to learn exactly which problems people have solved in the past. I write for NaNoWriMo, and I'm nearing the self publication of a short story called Highway.
Python is my passion. Alastair Reynolds writes great science fiction, but has a really ugly website. My Mac is my Linux without all the driver failures. I hate working directly for salesmen. Huge scented candles are surprisingly nice when you work from home all day. I play AP Mid lane for my League of Legends team, but love a good run at Top.
