[ZDP] Images on ZDP:8080 use relative paths

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:02:16 -0500


Hehya ZDP,

First of all, I am sorry I don't have the time anymore to actively
participate in the ZDP. I still follow the ZDP mailing list closely, and
the output of the recent flurry of activity is very exciting.

I noticed today, that the images that make up the left hand navigation
use relative links, all starting with images/. This has a very negative
impact on caching, as the same relative URL is used in every different
part of the site. In ZDP > Projects > ZIT the images come from
ZDP/projects/zit/images, and in DP > Links they come from
ZDP/links/images. Because of acquisition, Zope serves the same data, but
to a browser these are all different, causing it to download all images
for every new page.

If you were to change all image URLs to starting with /ZDP/images, the
browser would only have to load the images once, and then use the cache,
speeding up use of the ZDP site tremendously.

Fix this, and the new ZDP website is ready for prime time.

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