>>btw, I've experienced a lot of "not displaying inline" problems >>until I finally gave up on my three or four years old Internet >>Preferences file and started from scratch.
There is a difference, to, in how the images are referenced. OBJECT or EMBED might get mapped to a plug-in, depending on file helper settings. IMG tags are always handled by the browser. This was more a legacy behavior than an ideal one. When an image file is accessed directly, file helpers win. --bp -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Schierle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 1:57 PM To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk Subject: Re: IE 5.12 -- PNGs no workie! On 2001-10-09 21:44 +0200, Scott Stevenson wrote: > "Mac IE5's rendering is the best since it not only does full > alpha-transparency but also gamma and color correction." > <http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html> > > The problem only arises when the user attempts to view a PNG image on > its own, meaning not embedded in HTML. For some reason unknown to the > universe, every version of MacIE5 I've ever used has the file helpers > settings for image/png and image/x-png set such that said dialog appears > rather than the image just being displayed. > > Under MacIE 5.0.x for OS9, you could at least manually fix the file > helper settings to address this -- as described by members of this list. > This solved the problem on an individual basis, but still meant the vast > majority of MacIE users would not be able to view individual PNGs unless > they were in-line. Under 5.1.2, it's not even possible to fix this > manually (at least on my machine). You can make the changes, but they > don't stick. OS 9.2.1 here, Explorer 5 (2022) release 36 here ... within file helpers, png is handled by Graphic Converter, download to disk. Apparently overridden by QuickTime 5.0.2 -- local standalone png pictures are displayed fine in Explorer. I didn't test png pictures served through http. btw, I've experienced a lot of "not displaying inline" problems until I finally gave up on my three or four years old Internet Preferences file and started from scratch. -- Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany PGP key [DSS/DH] 0xA23CDA1D available at various public key servers To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
