[thelist] Cookies and images
James Hardy
evolt at weeb.biz
Fri Feb 4 12:26:17 CST 2005
>
> Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish...
> ...
> My thought was to have the
> information returned as cookies within the image so that I can publish them
> to the page in appropriate places.
>
Blimey! to me that seems a very complicated way of doing it to me. Are
you tied to the idea of using cookies? If not you might want to consider
doing it this way:
use javascript to load an external XML file (either using the standards
document.implementation or using Microsoft's ActiveX way of doing stuff)
which could be in the format:
<picture>
<image>/images/im123456.jpg</image>
<photographer>Fred Bloggs</photographer>
<copyrightyear>2004</copyrightyear>
<copyrightemail>fred at blogs.co.xx</copyrightemail>
</picture>
or whatever feels most right at the time. This would of course be
generated dynamically server side from whatever database you were using.
Then simply parse that to get the values; then you can just populate the
image and displayed information with the information you have got.
use setInterval to lather, rinse and repeat, and you'd be sorted.
--
James Hardy
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