Jason, Sorry I'm not a web developer so I don't know the tricks yet.
Regarding the cache, in my mind a good object API would provide a boolean to enable/disable caching. But what is even worse is caching that doesn't show any image. -Dave On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Jason Essington <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:22 PM, David Hoffer wrote: > >> >> Oh, I see just a fake cache buster like ?<timestamp> does the trick. > > yes, that is what I was talking about ... > >> I wish GWT could have abstracted away this nonsense; > > well, if this sort of thing was included by default, then images could > never be cached, reducing the efficiency of an application. > >> you would never have to add hacks like this with Java/Swing. > > Of course, java swing operates under a whole different set of rules > and assumptions. > GWT does help to make client side code a bit easier to develop, but it > still ends up compiling down to javascript that ultimately is going to > end up running in a browser ... some versions of which are decidedly > hostile towards web developers. > > -jason > >> >> >> -Dave >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Jason Essington >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You could try attaching a cache-buster to the url ... append a >>> timestamp or something to prevent the URL from being the same each >>> time. >>> >>> -jason >>> >>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 10:15 AM, dhoffer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> My application makes extensive use of displaying dynamic images via >>>> the image#setUrl() method. >>>> >>>> The problem is that in hosted mode (Windows) if I try to display an >>>> image that HAS been previously displayed it will not load, instead >>>> LoadListener#onError() is fired. However, If I manually clear the >>>> cache of IE it will work again. >>>> >>>> It seems GWT thinks the image is in the cache but can't find it so >>>> it >>>> displays nothing instead of using the URL provided. Manually >>>> clearing >>>> the cache makes it clear to GWT that it should use the URL. >>>> >>>> How can I configure my app so that GWT will not try to cache images >>>> set via URL? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> -Dave >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
