Back in the day, I used to be able to open a web browser (worked on Internet Explorer 7 for sure) and type in something with about: in the browser's address bar, along with some simple text like "Hello, World!".
The page would then change to about:blank in the address bar, and my text "Hello, World" would show up on the page. I remember basic HTML worked in general as well.
Problem: I forgot the syntax for doing this in the browser's address bar. Is this still supported?
I seen another post that does something similar with javascript, but the method I want to use had about: somewhere at the beginning of the address bar. I first discovered this technique when I was using Microsoft FrontPage by accident.
As well, I recently came across a QR code that did the same thing, about:blank page was in the address bar, and the page content was just text.
Essentially, I want to create a link/URL that loads a text message without pointing to a file or actual webpage.
For example, I want this result:data:,Hello%2C%20World!
but need the address bar to show about:blank.
You can encode any kind of data via the Data URI scheme:
data:[<media type>][;base64],<data>
For example: data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxk