RE: [WEB400] Re: Graphics not displaying

["Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>But if there is a spelling mistake, it is entirely possible 
>that the page would render fine when developed on a Windows 
>machine but fail when served up on a real computer.

True, I've seen all to often that those old slow "real" computers not handle
the simple concept of case-insensitive comparisons, either because they
don't have the performance or their programmers didn't have the foresight to
code for it. <DUCKS AND RUNS>

Seriously, I've never understood the rationale behind allowing foo.bar,
Foo.BAr, FOO.bAr and FoO.BAR as 4 different files. Sure, maybe long ago
there was a performance or ease of programming issue that required
case-sensative compares, but in today's world it's just silly. It's also one
of the things that bugs me about Java, who in their right mind designed a
new, modern, feature-packed language and made it case sensitive?

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:09 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Re: Graphics not displaying


Bonnie Williams wrote:
> The following are clipped from the index.htm.  The first is an image
> that does not display, the second one does.  Both files are in the
> images directory.
> 
> <img src="images/15logo2c.gif" width="110" height="112">
> 
> <img src="images/550shadow.gif" width="550" height="7">
> 

This is just a shot in the dark, but have you checked the spelling 
of the file names? The fact that one displays demonstrates that the 
web server is configured properly. But if there is a spelling 
mistake, it is entirely possible that the page would render fine 
when developed on a Windows machine but fail when served up on a 
real computer. What's the difference? Windows file names are not 
case sensitive, but on other machines, such as the iSeries IFS, case 
matters. If the real name of the file on the IFS is, say, 
"15logo2c.GIF", it won't be found.

Cheers! Hans


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