Canvas sounds like it might do the trick. Is canvas supported on IE and firefox?
I looked into dataurl and the other limitation is also the size of the image must be small, which doesn't work for my purposes either. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Ca-Phun Ung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:19 AM, whitewaterbug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> I believe this would require a 2nd download of the image so that it is >> within the applet. I am trying to get the actual image data into the >> applet through javascript to applet communication or having the applet >> access the DOM directly. > > > I see, you might want to look into image "data: URL". Basically you could > use a backend script, such as PHP, to convert your image into base64 data > and insert that directly into HTML. Another method would be to use <canvas> > - insert the image into a canvas element, convert to base64 and extract as a > string. > > >> >> Since the image data is downloaded as the HTML is being parsed by the >> browser...I am not sure if I can get at the image data. > > > You will not have this problem if you use a data url because the image data > is injected directly into HTML. > > A downer is I don't think IE6 and 7 support data URLs. > > > -- > Ca-Phun Ung > + http://yelotofu.com > + css, django, hongkong, html, javascript, php >
