I want a webpage to execute a remotely hosted js script. The script makes use of image-assets within the script's own directory. Is this possible to do using only relative filepaths within the script?
When run remotely, the relative filepath is interpreted as relative-to-the-webpage-file, not relative to the remote script itself.
I'd like to handle this without modifying the script to use absolute paths, because it's intended to be transportable. The webpage is just a showcase for the project. Is this possible to do in HTML?
Specifically, I have a javascript file being served by github pages eg:
https://user.github.io/repo/script.js
which uses some image assets, located in that repo, eg:
https://user.github.io/repo/assets/image.png
The script uses local paths to load its assets, eg:
imgBird = loadImage('assets/bird.png');
This doesn't work when the script is loaded remotely, because the script looks within the directory of the webpage for assets/bird.png, not the remote resource.
The HTML source currently uses the following to attempt to run the script:
<script src="https://user.github.io/repo/script.js">
There exists a similar problem, but the answer is script-based. I want to avoid modifying how the script works because it's intended to be introductory-level scripting and easy to understand.
No. Paths are relative to the page containing the script tag, not the script itself. For the script to function correctly it will need to know the url for /assets.