On Thu, September 25, 2008 12:07 pm, Manos Batsis wrote: > Exactly, thus an XMLHttpRequest can be used update an image in two ways: > > * The image URL can be passed as information to the HTTP response, > wrapped in XML or not (i.e. XMLHttpRequest.responseText). That can be > used to update an image.
Absolutely, but that doesn't quite do the same thing as updating the image as a result of the Ajax request. > * The actual image data can be encoded in base64 and sent in an XML > envelope obtained by an XMLHttpRequest. The base64 string can then be > used with the data: URI scheme[1] to render the image. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme Very interesting, I have to admit I wasn't aware of that, thanks for that info! No support in IE unfortunately, so may not be as useful (right now) as one might like, but still very interesting stuff. > Cheers, > > Manos Frank -- Frank W. Zammetti Author of "Practical Dojo Projects" and "Practical DWR 2 Projects" and "Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects" and "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology" (For info: apress.com/book/search?searchterm=zammetti&act=search) My "look ma, I have a blog too!" blog: zammetti.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
