[tor-bugs] #4069 [Tor Support]: Develop a short overview and walk-through of using Tor for new users

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#4069: Develop a short overview and walk-through of using Tor for new users
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 Reporter:  runa         |          Owner:  runa
     Type:  task         |         Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:      
Component:  Tor Support  |        Version:      
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Comment(by runa):

 Replying to [comment:5 runa]:
 > "XHTML with embedded SVG might work, too, but I'm pretty sure you can't
 make a usefully small SVG from the image. HTML is potentially human-
 readable without a browser. PDF can contain scary JavaScript, and there's
 no way for users to find out whether a PDF is safe to view. Both formats
 can 'phone home', and are probably capable of sending files from the
 user's filesystem to the Internet, but with an HTML file, a sufficiently
 paranoid user can view it as text safely."

 We can easily create HTML instead of PDF. I'm sure we can do XHTML as
 well. I have asked Jeremy if he can do SVG instead of PNG for the image we
 use.

 > " A data: URL is a URL which contains the data of the resource it names.
 There's a spec on the Mozilla developer website. Also, the user's webmail
 service can display an HTML file more nicely than it can display a PDF
 file. You can probably find examples of data: URLs in an exported Firefox
 bookmarks file (export to HTML)."

 What's the benefit of using data: URL instead? I tried it with the current
 image, and it works just fine (if you ignore the fact that the base64
 representation is a ton of lines).

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