On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Michael Schierl wrote:
> 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?

Fair enough. Would you say that the solution is to make sure the images
load the first time from IMG SRCs?
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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