Re: Serving images from databases
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16978
interpreted = N
texte = >>I am returning a [return raw] context and want to include the gif file in >>the respons (inside the [return raw] context). Shouldn't WebCat serve an >>[INCLUDE] file without changing it? > >Sorry, but because of a stupid bug in PageMill which would put ASCII 0 into >the middle of a template, we actually have to modify every template (as >well as Include files) and change the 0 to a space. Without this >pre-emptive fix, templates written with PageMill would stop processing >WebDNA somewhere in the middle. Wait a minute ...When you say we actually have to modify every template and change the 0 to a space ... are you trying to say that you (as in Pacific Coast Software) *intentionally* gave the [include] tag a bug that destroys the raw text inside the included file ... simply to remain compatible with a stupid PageMill bug?If that's the case, it seems like you're being overly accommodating to PageMill users ...Rather than making raw=T do something other than what's suggested and documented, I think it might have been better to create a special tag exclusively for the use of PageMill include files. In other words, offer something like [include raw=PageMill] if you have to, so your PageMill users can have their 0's changed to spaces -- but make [include raw=T] do exactly what it suggests and what is claimed in the docs -- so the rest of us have the right tools for the job ...Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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>>I am returning a [return raw] context and want to include the gif file in >>the respons (inside the [return raw] context). Shouldn't WebCat serve an >>
[include] file without changing it? > >Sorry, but because of a stupid bug in PageMill which would put ASCII 0 into >the middle of a template, we actually have to modify every template (as >well as Include files) and change the 0 to a space. Without this >pre-emptive fix, templates written with PageMill would stop processing >WebDNA somewhere in the middle. Wait a minute ...When you say we actually have to modify every template and change the 0 to a space ... are you trying to say that you (as in Pacific Coast Software) *intentionally* gave the
[include] tag a bug that destroys the raw text inside the included file ... simply to remain compatible with a stupid PageMill bug?If that's the case, it seems like you're being overly accommodating to PageMill users ...Rather than making raw=T do something other than what's suggested and documented, I think it might have been better to create a special tag exclusively for the use of PageMill include files. In other words, offer something like [include raw=PageMill] if you have to, so your PageMill users can have their 0's changed to spaces -- but make [include raw=T] do exactly what it suggests and what is claimed in the docs -- so the rest of us have the right tools for the job ...Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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