html image -- Had some extra time on my hands

**djr33** · 05-05-2006, 07:10 AM

http://ci-pro.com/misc/phptest/images/table.php
Enjoy.

Try saving that image

And, yes, it takes forever to load.

No real point to this... just... had extra time in a class. Heh.

(more info- using php's gd functions, can use any image as the based... just using that right now.)

Note: works in IE/FF, doesn't seem to in Safari.

**Twey** · 05-05-2006, 10:59 AM

Very clever, as an academic experiment, but it's pretty obvious why that's impractical in a real website

**djr33** · 05-05-2006, 04:54 PM

Yeah... basically what I thought.

the only advantage to it is that you can't right click on it and save, so it might confuse someone as to not being able to save it... til they think to do a screencap.
But... yeah.
It IS impossible to save as an image... that's kinda cool.

And, heck, you could actually use this in a text only browsers.... but... you can assume those with them would have slower connections anyway, defeating the point.
I know you use one, Twey... does it work?
(or, perhaps tables are considered graphics anyway)

Anyway... was fun

Question... why doesn't it work in safari or IE 5, but does in mozilla/IE6+?
Is there some extra thing that needs to be added to the table?

**Twey** · 05-05-2006, 05:48 PM

Try adding   inside each of the table cells.

I know you use one, Twey... does it work?

No, totally blank. Although whether that's to do with the lack of data inside the cells or something else, I don't know.

**djr33** · 05-05-2006, 05:52 PM

Does your text only browser support table cell colors, and, overall, tables as a whole?

As for nbsp, that'll screw up the spacing... it'll make it a space wide/tall instead of one pixel.

I guess I could use css to set the size of a space to 1px... but that seems a bit extreme... not sure if browsers will render it that small.

**Twey** · 05-05-2006, 07:11 PM

Does your text only browser support table cell colors, and, overall, tables as a whole?

Yes.

As for nbsp, that'll screw up the spacing... it'll make it a space wide/tall instead of one pixel.

Not if you specify the size to be 1px by 1px using CSS.

**djr33** · 05-05-2006, 10:26 PM

Cool that it supports it... not like it's a big deal... but.. heck.. images in a browser without images... fun

That css would also avoid needing the width=1 for each td and tr, so that would save transfer time. (I could code that into css by itself, but the nbsp; will solve two with one)