Export to disk issues

[Chaya]

I am very new to Sparkle (1 day), but not new to web design. I exported my project to disk because I have to use Filezilla for uploading. I’ve noticed two problems when using Safari from the local files - they haven’t been uploaded yet.

1. Links - I tried linking an image to a link in the website & external. Both times, when I clicked on them, the system brought me back to the folder the page was in. If I’m looking at preview in Sparkle, it works goes back to index (page1) just fine. Does this mean web links won’t work after being uploaded like this?

2. iPad - If I click on the index.html from the Files app, the page loads but doesn’t display the images. Does this mean that the Sparkle generated pages won’t display correctly in iPad Safari?

[duncan]

Both of those are likely to be explained by this:

Picture behaviour

Ok that explains it then. When you export to disk Sparkle produces “web ready” files, meaning they are intended to be viewed from a web server. The pages are faster when viewed via a web server, because Sparkle implements the performance improvements that make the site quicker to load (namely deferring loading CSS and Javascript), as suggested by all page speed tests, a metric also used by Google to rank sites. The problem with the speed-up techniques is they don’t work when loading the page f…

[Chaya]

Thanks - now that I’ve seen the html, I don’t want to ever see it again.