[albatross-users] popview example from documentation

[Andrew McNamara]

>To solve this problem, I simply replaced the image src path/file in the 
>form tag with an image path/file that actually exists on my server. After 
>doing this, the application worked properly.

Certainly a strange effect.

>Skimming through the documentation for this example, I do not see any 
>caution about this problem. Is this something that is obvious and I should 
>have known?

No - it's a bug in the samples installation process that we need to fix.
Thanks for spending the time to track it down.

>(I did know to adjust the shebang line path to my executable 
>python binary, and I did know to change the pop host to an actual pop 
>host.) 

In an ideal world, you shouldn't have had to do that either. If distutils
can get it right, then so should our installer.

>Since no one mentioned this possibility, it makes me think this is 
>the first time it has come up on the list. Apparently the 404 error for the 
>non-existent image file doesn't bother IE at all, but for Mozilla, it 
>causes the process to fail. Kind of important??

It smells like a browser bug to me, but obviously we should be installing
the image.

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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