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I just see one problem with this solution. You can't create Retina images out of base64 strings on any web browsers today.

You can't create Retina images out of base64 strings

Why not? There's no such thing as a 'retina image', they're just a larger resolution. There's nothing stopping you from requesting a @2x set of thumbnails

Are you sure you can't just serve up a 400x400px base64 image and put it in an image element with a height and width of 200?

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