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Main source for falling-sky. Mostly HTML, JavaScript.
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Try image fetches as AJAX #115

Closed jfesler closed 9 years ago

jfesler commented 10 years ago

Niall suggests fetching images as AJAX. Look into whether we can do that or not. My concern with trying to fetch those images as AJAX is that the browser will try executing the images as javascript.

jfesler commented 9 years ago

Btw: This was actually discussed back and forth with Niall rather intensely. Ultimately, after about 20 messages, he wrote:

After some exploring, it now seems to me that the response to an image-load request cannot conveniently be used to confirm host reachability in the given context.

This wasn't so much a WONTFIX but more of a TECHNICALLYNOTPOSSIBLE :-)