Why not have the Ajax request retrieve new HTML to replace the HTML displaying the images? Your Ajax shouldn't be retrieving actually images, it should just be retrieving HTML <img> tags with the appropriate references to the image URLs.
On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:29:55 AM UTC-4, BrendanC wrote: > > OK - hope I can make this clear - it's more of a 'how to' design question > and not really web2py specific. > > Imagine a view/template with a container/div that displays a (multipage) > image gallery - this is the landing page (prepopulated with random images. > The page has a Search sidebar to allow filtering/subselection by tags; > names etc. The search performs an Ajax search to find a subset of images > and currently retrieves an XML list of matches. > > What I want to do is refresh the template images display with matches > found by the Ajax request. (I don't think XHR can retrieve binary data). > The XHR request currently retrieves a list, but what I really need to do > here is pass the list on and have the image files updated. > > Is there a way to do that and/or some examples of this? > > Any suggestions wold be appreciated! >
