Coldfusion - Displaying images from a database

I have found that serving images housed in a database is made easier by using a mixture of Coldfusion and jQuery/JSON. Here is how I did it:

1. Create a CFC with the setStudentImage function. This calls another CFC which simply returns a query with all matching user images, loops through the results base64-encodes the image, adds it to the array, then returns the array. (We need to base64-encode the image, so that we can hand it off to JSON, (Is this really needed? I haven't checked, as I notice that I am returning an array to Javascript, and not JSON)).

    <cffunction name="setStudentImage"
        access="remote"
        return="array"
        hint="returns image via email
        
        @return result array">
        <cfargument name="email" type="string" required="false" default="">

        <!--- Define variables --->
        <cfset var data="">
        <cfset var result = ArrayNew(1)>

        <!--- do search --->
        <cfset userObject = cfcCard.getImageByEmail( '#email#' )>

        <!--- build result array --->
        <cfloop query = "userObject">
            <cfset base64Img = ToBase64( userObject.IMAGE )>
            <cfset ArrayAppend( result, '#base64Img#')>
        </cfloop>

        <cfreturn result>
    </cffunction>

2. We create our cfajaxproxy, and the Javascript to call Coldfusion for the image, then modify our img tag to display our image:

<cfajaxproxy cfc="#Application.cfcPath#.Card" jsclassname="o">

<script type="text/javascript">
    function callSetStudentImage( useremail ) {
        var inst = new o();
        var result = inst.setStudentImage( String( useremail ) ) ;

        return result;
    }
...
    function getStudentInfo( magstrip ) {  
...
        var userimg = callSetStudentImage( useremail );
        if (userimg != "") {
            $( '#myimg' ).attr( 'src', 'data:image/*;base64,' + userimg ).resize({maxHeight: 150, maxWidth: 200});

3. Ben Forta's method for displaying images from a database here, worked well for everything, except for size manipulation, so I turned to a great jQuery plugin, jQuery Resize Image Plugin, to do the resizing for me:

 $( '#myimg' ).attr( 'src', 'data:image/*;base64,' + userimg ).resize({maxHeight: 150, maxWidth: 200});

The only issues that I have now, are displaying the base64-encoded images in Google Chrome, (for some reason), and Firefox 4 Beta 1...