[Zope] Re: transparent gifs

Danny Morgan danielhmorgan@cox.net
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:33:37 -0500


After looking into the byte counts, I could see something was amiss. I 
apparently uploaded the wrong image file...Thanks for putting an end to my 
self-inflicted misery.

Danny


At 01:27 PM 10/3/02 -0700, Chris Beaumont wrote:
>Danny,
>
>Can you compare the byte count of the two gifs? I doubt if Zope is 
>changing the spacer.gif binary file, which is what you imply. The browser 
>renders an image..Zope should merely serve it (with the correct mime-type 
>specified in the HTTP header)
>
>A comparison would answer that question.
>
>-Chris
>
>
>On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 01:24 PM, Danny Morgan wrote:
>
>>I've been attempting to use a 'spacer.gif' but run into problems with 
>>Zope's rendering of it.
>>
>>Specifically, the space that should be transparent is instead gray. When 
>>viewed from the ZMI, it is transparent. When called from a page template, 
>>as with the following code, it is not. Likewise, it is gray when called 
>>from the web directly.
>>
>>                <img src="spacer_gif"
>>                     width="30"
>>                     tal:attributes="src 
>> here/images/spacer_gif/absolute_url" >
>>
>>                http://localhost:8080/images/spacer_gif
>>
>>Thanks for reading,
>>
>>Danny
>>
>>
>>