Mark, I'm assuming your questions were directed at me, so... First off, no it doesn't seem to emulate the /span argument to mstsc. This is most likely due to the fact that my browser (Firefox) is using the current monitor's dimensions to populate the values fetched in that little Javascript segment. Secondly, the HTML fragment that you supply on the resource profile page is wrapped (and stored as a string) in Javascript. Before being sent to the browser, the "<<THING>>" tokens are substituted for corresponding real values. The HTML is then written out into the page body - still using Javascript - for the browser to actually render. Someone who's a real web author can explain all that using the proper terms - I'm just a hacker :) I'm not completely clear, however, on why Javascript is used in this way, instead of values being directly transposed into the stored HTML fragment before sending it to the browser. (Edit: thinking about it, I wonder if it's to reduce the risk of something server-side mashing the HTML in some undesirable way?) I'm also not clear on why the resource profile page suggests you have parameters like <WIDTH> and <HEIGHT> available, when this seems patently not to be the case... Hey ho.
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