On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 19:31 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> On 5/27/07, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> > > URL path. When rendered, it should take into account settings.MEDIA_URL.
> >
> > As a matter of fact it's not a universal practice to have css and js
> > filed under this root. A couple of my projects had them in separate
> > places (even js separate from css). It can be handled as simple as
> > checking if Widget's media() (or a Meta-class) already contain an
> > absolute links and only if they don't the join it with MEDIA_URL.
> 
> Hrm. I see the problem, but I'm not sure I'm wild on that suggestion
> for fixing it. One outcome I can see from this proposal is the
> possibility of widget libraries; allowing absolute paths doesn't
> really serve to promote this goal.
> 
> When you say JS and CSS are separate - how separate are they? What
> relationship (if any) does the path to CSS and JS have with MEDIA_URL
> and MEDIA_ROOT? Can you describe the 'worst case' URL space that Media
> objects would need to be able to target?

One "worst case" is using the Yahoo UI library and having the URLs for
the Javascript components point to Yahoo's external hosting. Which is
recommended practice (huge caching benefits).

What is you problem with Ivan's suggestion of not munging absolute URLs?

Regards,
Malcolm



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