[Seaside] state of the aubergine

[Avi Bryant]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Nevin Pratt wrote:

> > But, if I instead just use <img src="@foo.jpg">
>
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^
> But again, why would I ever want a trailing ".jpg" here?  If there is a
> trailing ".jpg" (or ".gif", for the matter), wouldn't I *always* want it
> statically served?  And in that case, why would I want the leading "@"?

Well, by "statically served" what you mean is "have a document root
prepended".  The @ is what's alerting Seaside that this tag should not be
output verbatim, but should be treated specially.  The @ is actually just
a macro that Seaside uses by default; if you have another rule that you
want to encode, it's quite easy to add another macro.  It sounds like you
want one that takes all <img> tags with a src attribute ending in .gif,
.jpg, etc, and prepend a certain path to them.  If you take a look at the
Seaside-Macros category you'll see some examples to emulate.  To see where
they're used, look at IATemplate>>defaultExpander.

> And if not, should we modify Seaside to behave that way?  Or should I
> handle it at the Comanche/Seaside interface (i.e., IAKom) (i.e., hack
> out the seaside portion of the URL when it sees the trailing ".jpg" or
> ".gif" so that the URL never gets dispatched to Seaside)?

This makes me uneasy.  I'd much rather see it done as a macro.

Avi