Chucky,

Just wondering... I've just been playing with the same sort of expanding data using xmlhttpget2() that you've been using so successfully across the site (and I like the way it works so much, in true 'net form, I'm trying to nick the idea)

It works just fine if I try and include bits of web page from amiright (e.g. comments from a parody, or /blank.html), but won't if I try and use external content (e.g. this table)  - don't know too much about it, but I'd guess the function is server-side and doesn't want to look elsewhere..

I suppose what I'm asking for is the ability either to use some form of xmlhttpget2 that allows data to be dragged from another site, or possibly to be able to upload HTML snippets.  Am I being a bit too presumptuous?

Thanks, anyway

Phil

Chucky,

Just wondering... I've just been playing with the same sort of expanding data using xmlhttpget2() that you've been using so successfully across the site (and I like the way it works so much, in true 'net form, I'm trying to nick the idea)

It works just fine if I try and include bits of web page from amiright (e.g. comments from a parody, or /blank.html), but won't if I try and use external content (e.g. this table)  - don't know too much about it, but I'd guess the function is server-side and doesn't want to look elsewhere..

I suppose what I'm asking for is the ability either to use some form of xmlhttpget2 that allows data to be dragged from another site, or possibly to be able to upload HTML snippets.  Am I being a bit too presumptuous?

Thanks, anyway

Phil


you can't use the methods in xmlhttpget2 across sites, the functions it references in the other functions in that js file , those functions are limited by browser security to reference only the site that calls them.  It's an AJAX style (not truly xml, so not really AJAX) function, which does call a script on the server.

I think what you are trying to do, could be accomplished with an IFRAME and possibly also some javascript.  Not sure if the author tool will let you do it, but it might.

Yes, an IFRAME with a bit of embedded java (I didn't realize that you could stick your script tags within the body and it works quite happily.. I always assumed that they had to be outside) seems to work... now all I have to do is design something. :D