I think you should mantain all your assets outside the smalltalk image.
Seaside it is very good with web apps, but it isn't very good at serving static content. The right tool for the right task. I use lighttpd on debian to serve all the images (*.jpg, *.gif), css
(*.css), javascripts (*.js) for my app. It has a very small memory footprint, you can use it as a reverse proxy/load balancer to scale up your app (with several images running as workers behind lighttpd, and user mod_proxy to serve the static content by itself and only delegating to seaside what it is your web app.<br>
My advice is: do not try to have all the things inside the image. It is going to revert back when you try to scale it (think of updating an jpg in your production app with a lot of smalltalk images working in parallel. A lot of pain)<br>
<br>Miguel Cobá<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:46 AM, aditya siram <<a href="mailto:aditya.siram@gmail.com">aditya.siram@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am trying to incorporate images into my website. <br><br>However I would rather not use the methods listed in the "Resources" section of the Seaside Tutorial at <a href="http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial" target="_blank">http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial</a>. The CSS method reloads the image everytime, and the WAFileLibrary method inflates the Seaside image terribly. Using Apache as a proxy is not desirable because I am using Seaside mainly for its portability ie. I can stick the entire Seaside image on a flash drive and move the web-server from PC to PC with minimal hassle compared to other frameworks. <br>
<br>Is there some way to have the Seaside read the images off some directory on the file system?<br><br>Deech<br><br><br>
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