a more recent post about this topic http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/2005/4/11/embedding_images_inside_html
and make sure to check out the link to http://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/ because that is just sick! Taking your idea to the next demented level -w On Jul 24, 2:20 pm, traunic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how does raw image data get you anything? Seems you want the data and > the image URL via XHR and then dynamically insert your DOM bits (img > tag w/ URL from response with some sort of wrapper containing your > legend)... I mean, what you are talking about is technically doable > (not in all browsers)http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2003/10/18/embedding > but I am not sure it gets you anything. > > -wade > > On Jul 24, 3:59 am, "Rob Desbois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > JK, > > Thanks but no - that's my alternative. > > > Dan, > > Absolutely, please do tell me if I am! > > > I have a server-side script which generates a graph image given a set of > > dataset identifiers. Additional datasets are implicitly added server-side > > too. > > Currently the image contains the legend, but I'd like to generate the legend > > in HTML as it'll be more consistent with legends used for tables. > > The legend contents cannot be determined until partway through graph > > generation - so I'd like to retrieve both raw image data and legend data via > > AJAX, build the legend's HTML representation and display the image. > > > Otherwise, I'll use an AJAX request to return the legend data, and cache the > > intermediate step so that when I insert the <img> tag for the graph, the > > generating script doesn't need to repeat the first part. > > > What do you think? > > > --rob > > > On 7/23/07, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Rob, > > > > >I have a feeling the answer is a flat 'no', but want to check: is it > > > >possible for an AJAX request to retrieve binary image data (e.g. raw > > > >GIF) and display that on the page? > > > > Can you describe the *exact* effect your trying to achieve? > > > > Why do you think you need to load binary image data via AJAX? > > > > I'm asking just to make sure you're not barking up the wrong tree... > > > > -Dan > > > -- > > Rob Desbois > > Eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: 01452 760631 > > Mob: 07946 705987 > > "There's a whale there's a whale there's a whale fish" he cried, and the > > whale was in full view. > > ...Then ooh welcome. Ahhh. Ooh mug welcome.
