Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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static/dynamic differences

Author:	Oliver Wrede
Posted:	8/18/1999; 3:09:03 AM
Topic:	static/dynamic differences
Msg #:	9615
Prev/Next:	9614 / 9616

I wish Frontier 6.1 would be able to serve dynamic content in the same way as it does static rendering -- but there are things open which are not included in the description for converting websites to mainResponder (http://frontier.userland.com/tree$3.2.13)

My current problem: linked StyleSheets

I have a rather complex set of stylesheets. I need to be able to exchange the stylesheets by setting the HREF of a -Reference via JavaScript (this does not work with embedded ones). The linking seems to be much faster as well.

In my static website the stylesheets are Outlines in the #styleSheets subtable. I use the linkStyleSheet() macro to link those in. This creates references to URIs like "/css/default.css".

When converting to a mainResponder site this does not work. I have to do the following steps:

• rename "#styleSheets" table to "css"
• add within that table:
  #processMacros false
  #renderOutlineWith cssRenderer
  #template rawHTML
  
• in table "#templates" add a wptext or outline with just "{bodytext}" and following additional line
  

  {responseHeaders.["Content-Type"] = "text/css"; ""}
  

• copy the macro from html.utilities.renderStyleSheet() to "cssRenderer" in the "#tools" subtable and
• change the first line to
  

  on cssRenderer (adrOutline=adrObject, adrPageTable=nil)

• in the pageHeader I have to use a different script than linkStyleSheets (e.g. "linkCss()") which looks like this:
  

  on linkCss ( name, id="", path=mySite.["#ftpSite"].url+"css/" ) {
      if not defined ( cssExtension ) {
         local ( cssExtension = "" )};
      if id=="" {
         id=name};
      return ( "" )}
  

So far so good.

Now the last problem:

My browser (IE5) doesn't eat that Content-Type! While my Apache server seems to deliver the Content-Type correctly. Without the right Content-Type the linked StyleSheets don't work.

I did some tests by telnetting to port 80 on each server. See here:

Test with Frontier 6.0:
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GET /test/css/typo



HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 126
Content-Type: text/css
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:31:58 GMT
Server: UserLand Frontier/6.0-Win95




.box, .boxtitle, .boxbody, .btitle, .bsubtitle, .chooserbox, .choosertext {



        font-family: Verdana, MS Sans Serif, Arial}
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Test with Apache:
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GET /test/css/typo1.css



.box,.boxtitle,.boxbody,.btitle,.bsubtitle,.chooserbox,.choosertext {
font-family: Verdana, MS Sans Serif, Arial }




Connection closed by foreign host.
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Although I can't the the Content-Type-Header in the Apache response, it seems Frontiers responses are not interpreted correctly by my browser!

Disregarding this problem: It would be nice if the linkStyleSheet()-Script could deal with mainResponder sites alone - so I can switch more easily and even mix static and dynamic content in the same Guest database....

Oliver

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