if you had quoted my entire message, or in fact read it you'd notice the very next lines were:
"Not very efficient as it would be large, and any decrease in size could make text hard to read..... I'm not really suggesting you do this (or that it's even possible) I'm just brainstorming." And as for a dynamic setting, i.e. a perl cgi script I submitted the following: "I guess you could use some modules to write a dynamic image file of some sort with perl." I could foresee situations where this would work. For instance a "dynamic report" where you need the user to see the info but for some reason want to hide the HTML/XML data. Obviously if you send an image you can't take full advantage of either XML or HTML (embedded links, java scripts etc...). However, these were not parameters given in the initial problem for us to consider. I could also see it would be possible (albeit not easy!) to create the dynamic image in a variety of ways. For instance you could replace fields in a template image or generate a whole new image each time calculating alignment, etc. PDF, JPG, GIF, whatever format works best for the programmer. I'm not saying it's easy or efficient, just a possible solution to this rather odd problem. It's called unconventional thinking, and perhaps in your environ they call that mad, but then most geniuses aren't understood in their own time. ;) -Wayne -----Original Message----- From: Bill Curnow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hide Code On 11 Feb 2004 at 7:57, Wayne Simmons wrote: > you could write your whole web page as a PDF file and send to the > browser a single image. Send what, a PDF file or an image. Either way, what you're suggesting is that the developper render the page in HTML and then take a screen capture, sending that screen capture. Yes, that can be done, but I'd question the sanity any anyone doing this in an dynamic environment. Remember, the original poster was using Perl CGI to render HTML. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
