Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Michael Schierl wrote:
>> Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[putting every image into an iframe to work around Freenet's
reloading bugs]

>>> It works pretty well on the SSKvsCHK site :)
>> 
>> One should not justify a dirty hack by "it works pretty well" since
>> most dirty hacks will...
>
> Why is it a dirty hack?

Do you think it is usual behaviour to put images into IFRAMEs? 


I have only seen that on Freenet. And since it is more work (and needs
more resources on most browsers) and is only done to work around
another problem, I usually call thinks like this "a dirty hack".

So:

- there is a usual solution (IMG tags for images).

- it does not work in a specified environment (Freenet).

- there is no interest to fix that solution in this environment,
  because

- there is a "simple" way to work around that problem (IFRAME)

- which uses techniques not appropriate for the problem (starting a
  whole HTML parser subinstance just for rendering an image) and

- makes migration of existing work harder (mirroring a website into
  Freenet requires s/img/iframe/)

==> dirty hack.

What is your definition of dirty hack?
 
mihi

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