Outside of the box! I love it!
On Oct 22, 3:22 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:
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> > 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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