Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
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: ------------------------------------------------------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. ------------------------------------------------------
Test with Apache: ------------------------------------------------------GET /test/css/typo1.css
.box,.boxtitle,.boxbody,.btitle,.bsubtitle,.chooserbox,.choosertext { font-family: Verdana, MS Sans Serif, Arial }
Connection closed by foreign host. ------------------------------------------------------
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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