[Seaside] Smalltalk String and Character question

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 20.03.2005 um 13:38 schrieb Avi Bryant:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:18:50 +0300, Dmitry Dorofeev
> <dima-sender-3c337a at yasp.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just writting WAImage component for Seaside. Now at stage where i need
>> to detect image type.
>> For jpeg i have the following:
>>
>> WAImage >> detectImageType: image
>> (image beginsWith: (String with: 16rFF asCharacter), (String with:
>> 16rD8 asCharacter)) ifTrue: [^ 'jpg'].
>>
>> Looks quite long comparing to Perl, i know there should be a shorter
>> solution :-)
>
> JPEGReadWriter understandsImageFormat: image readStream

That was my first reaction, too. But unfortunately this will not work 
because some moro^h^h^h^h person decided to answer false to this *if* 
the newer JPEGReadWriter2 can handle it. Sigh.

- Bert -