[WEB4LIB] RE: Help! with JavaScript

[Thomas Dowling]

MSIE has had an atrocious track record of screwing up on MIME types, and
it's possible that some users will not see the image if their browser
doesn't get a "file" ending in .jpg.  This is one of MSIE's worst
shortcomings.

One hack you can try is to have the script accept, but then throw away, a
PATH_INFO environment variable.  With the right aliases, this would look
like '<img src="/rotate/image/foo.jpg" alt="Image randomly selected with
your mind in mind">'.  The script is "image" and the "foo.jpg" part is
ignored, but the result is to make the script invisible to your users.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Michael Squires
> (michael)
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 5:26 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Help! with JavaScript
>
>
> Why not do this a cgi-bin? That way you don't care what the browser is?
>
> I've seen this done:
>
> 	- on your html page (e.g., "index.html") put your image tag as
> follows:
> 	<img src="/cgi-bin/rotating-image" ....>
> 	- write your script to pick a random image and return it
>
>
>
> Michael Lee Squires
> Digital Library Champion
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Walter Minkel [mailto:walterm at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us]
> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 1:54 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Help! with JavaScript
> >
> >
> > Oh, all-wise folks-- Multnomah County Library is working on a
> > new website
> > design. As part of the design, we wanted to include a JavaScript that
> > would select a .jpg file at random from a folder of photos
> > and place it on
> > the page. We found one JavaScript example in a book, but it
> > only seems to
> > work in 4.0x browsers. Is there a way to get it to work in 3.0x
> > Java-capable browsers? The page is located at
> > <http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/~walterm/iface/>. Any help/advice that
> > anyone can give us is welcome. 10-Q, W
> >
> > Walter Minkel, School Corps Technology Trainer
> > Multnomah County Library, 205 NE Russell St., Portland, OR 97212
> > Voice (503)736-6002; fax (503)248-5441;
> > walterm at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us
> > ==============
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