Thanks Abdullah, You're right... I setup some test content behind apache and found this to be true. The problems you mention I'm aware of but this wasn't my choice.
Thanks for the prompt and helpful reply :) On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Abdullah Shaikh <[email protected] > wrote: > Yes its browser security, you need to load the images from the server and > not directly from the drive, I dont know what you are trying to do, but this > wont work on client side as the user may not have c: drive or the images. > > - Abdullah > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Andrew Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> Not by choice we need to load Images from a *file:///* url. >> >> For example... >> >> *Image myImage** = **new** **Image(**"**file:///c:/blah/blah.png**"**);* >> >> >> This will produce (as seen in chrome+firebug) html that looks like... >> >> <img src="file:///c:/blah/blah.png"> >> >> >> The problem, is that the image is never loaded. Chrome's Developer Tools >> says that the image is 0px by 0px and when you look @ the Resources section >> the browser has not even attempted to load the image. It's not that it's a >> 404 or anything. >> >> Any idea's why this might be? Browser security perhaps? >> >> Cheers :) >> >> -- >> 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- 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.
