Logitech strife - new webcam suggestions?

[beteljuice]

I typed:

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// imgsrc = "sky.jpg";
// should be
imgsrc = "images/sky.jpg";

So why have you changed the pic source to:

imgsrc = "/wx/images/sky.jpg";

Although that should still work given your directory structure

BUT ..

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// tmp = new Date();
// tmp = "?" + tmp.getTime();
// document.images["image1"].src = imgsrc + tmp; 

You have now 'commented out' the bit that makes every image unique to a server / browser cache !

Hmm ... it's saying image1 is undefined.

Try taking the JavaScript out the <header> and put it just before the </body> tag.

[fractonimbus]

Just trying to see if that made a difference. /wx/... is the full path from the server, so it shouldn't hurt.

I'm wondering if it could be that as the updated imageon the server has the same name, it is being sourced from cache by the browser and not being downloaded.

I think the original '?' code was intended as a cache breaker, but it didn't seem to work. Is using the "name" attribute in the img tag sufficient to identify the object for document.images("image1") ?

DN

[beteljuice]

Try taking the JavaScript out the <header> and put it just before the </body> tag.

... and put the cache buster back.

Edit: Temp link removed

[fractonimbus]

OK, the cache-buster is back. But I was looking at my outgoing IP traffic while doing all this, and I saw no evidence of the browser sending a request to the server, so it seemed the javascript was not telling the browser to do anything and presumably it was not being called properly.

Then I looked at your frame code and saw that you had located the javascript after the image code in the body. And that it *was* calling the server.

I did the same, and now it's working. So it seems your suggestion to relocate the js was right on the button. Thank you sir, you are a scholar, gentleman and wizzard

I need to get the polling delay fixed, but looks like the problem's solved. And I'm getting a rather nice moonlight image now, too!

DN