CodeStore.net comments on "Using MIME-Based HTML Tables in Notes Client"

Reply from Bill Hanson

Bill Hanson — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:34:38 -0500

The process is the same for XPages, but it's overkill to use MIME when the browser already supports HTML. Also, repeat controls are normally more efficient (performance & memory) than generating, encoding, and displaying a long HTML string.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:19:24 -0500

That's right. For offline viewing you attach the image to the MIME field in base64 encoding and then you can refer to it directly from within your HTML by using an ID you assigned to the file while adding.

It's not too hard to do. The hard part is getting it to work on all email clients. Last time I tried that I gave up in frustration at what appeared to be a bug in the way Notes handled multipart MIMEs.

Reply from Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:07:23 -0500

No .. due to time constraints I went in another direction. Inline images are no problem, but it was my impression that the image file(s) needed to be attached to the message if the user was viewing it while not connected? If not then I'll have to take another look at that.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:06:24 -0500

Did you overcome the snag Mike? It's easy enough to include inline images in MIME emails.

Reply from Palmi

Palmi — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:08:12 -0500

Xpages developers : How easy is this in Xpages ? I can imagine its pretty easy.

Reply from Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:41:38 -0500

Good stuff ... I embarked on something similar recently but ran into a snag when needing to display icons in some columns. Since the table was being included in an email, the gifs needed to be attached to the message in the event the message was viewed offline.

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:54:16 -0500

Nice work, Jake.

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