Re: Rendering of Remote Partials

doug
Fri, 11 May 2007 02:18:33 -0000

> May I ask as to why you want to do this?

Absolutely.  Let''s say that you''re a manufacturer of widgets
for sale
to the general public.  You have a number of affiliates who market
your widgets through their respective web sites.  Without using
frames, you want to provide master content on your web server that can
be incorporated into the respective websites of your affiliates.
Since you control the content you don''t have to be concerned that the
content being touted by your affiliates is out of date.  Similarly,
each your affiliates doesn''t have to update their web sites whenever
there is some change affecting the widget content such as a price
change.  You  just update your master and it magically propogates to
all of your affiliates.  Finally, and this is one of the reasons that
I don''t want to use frames, if one carefully crafts both the content
being served by your web server and the respective pages of the
affiliates into which that content is inserted, an external style
sheet can be used to style the content.  That means that each of your
affiliates can style the content that you provide so that it
integrates nicely into their particular web site.

So, unless we can come up with something better, maybe I should look
at your wget suggestion.  What do you think?

Thanks for the input, BTW.