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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