[Seaside] aRenderer imageWithForm: error

[tblanchard at mac.com]

Hi Nevin,

Ordinarily I'd agree with you - for static pictures I'd put them on an 
apache server and just point to them.  I'm doing dynamic drawing of 
images here though so I need to serve out the form I just drew.

-Todd

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 09:17  PM, Nevin Pratt wrote:

>
>
> tblanchard at mac.com wrote:
>
>> I have a gif that I've imported into ImageImports.
>>
>> So now I want to stick it into a web page using
>>
>> html imageWithForm: (ImageImports at: 'myImage').
>>
>> this results in an error fairly far down with an attempt to put an 
>> integer into a string - which complains that strings only take 
>> characters.
>>
>> b4 release.
>>
>> -Todd Blanchard
>
>
> I use a different approach.  I don't let my site host pictures.  I 
> instead have another site with the pictures.  That other site is 
> hosted by Earthlink, and has higher bandwidth to the internet than my 
> site has. That also means that when somebody hits the 
> "bountifulbaby.com" site, basically the only thing served by my 
> machine is HTML text.  That keeps bandwidth usage very minimal for my 
> site.
>
> The Earthlink hosted site is "bountifulbaby.net".  I also have an 
> "index.html" file at the root of "bountifulbaby.net" that just 
> redirects the user to my "bountifulbaby.com" site, so the user can get 
> to my site with either the ".com" or the ".net" address.
>
> So, why do you want your Smalltalk image to contain (and serve) your 
> pictures, anyway?  For that matter, why do you want your *site* to 
> serve the pictures?  Pictures chew up a lot of bandwidth, and you can 
> offload them for $10 to $20 a month, and gain a lot in bandwidth in 
> the process.
>
> Nevin
>
> -- 
> Nevin Pratt
> Bountiful Baby
> http://www.bountifulbaby.com
> (801) 992-3137
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