I appreciate your imagination. :)

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, alex.d <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There was another really insane way where you actually decode your
> image (bytes you've sended back) and produce a lot of 1px sized divs
> with accordant colors which makes the image :))  But like i said -
> it's kind of crazy.
>
> On 22 Okt., 07:55, "Robert J. Carr" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks Ian ... I had a feeling it was going to be complicated, I just
>> wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
>>
>> Looks like I'm relegated to building complex queries or making two
>> requests.  Thanks again for the time!
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > You can send bytes back to the client as an RPC response (it's just an
>> > HTTP request, after all) but the problem is what to do with the bytes
>> > once you have them.  If you're willing to restrict yourself to
>> > browsers that support data:// URLs, you can send the image back as a
>> > data:// URL and just drop the result into an img tag.  That approach
>> > excludes many (all?) versions of IE.  As far as I know, the only IE
>> > that _might_ support data:// URLs is IE8.  To be fully-compatible, you
>> > need to forge ahead with your existing approach or, as you say,
>> > generate a URL via RPC and make the generated URL resolve to the
>> > desired image.
>>
>> > If you want to fool around with the RPC infrastructure, you could
>> > possibly use a GWT-RPC request payload as the query parameter in a
>> > standard request, if you think such a representation would be more
>> > compact/useful than the representation you're currently using.  On the
>> > server side, you could then use the RPC class (is that still in use?)
>> > to deserialize the parameters and drive the image request.  Might be
>> > more trouble than it's worth, though.
>>
>> > Ian
> >
>

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