On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:19:56 +0100, Richard Porter wrote: > On 17 Oct 2011 Brian Bailey wrote: > > > I ran the html file which was with the message, which appears as an > > attchment, in !Pluto, in NetSurf. The BMP file was also an attachment to > > the message. NetSurf tried to load the file. End of. > > OK. But an html message or web page shouldn't contain BMP images. I > expect that Internet Explorer might open them
Actually BMP files are pretty well supported by web browsers - presumably mostly because favicons started out using BMP or ICO files. Wikipedia has a reasonable table although the BMP column is incomplete (NetSurf entry needs filling in!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support I'd agree that BMP is an odd choice though... > I'm not surprised that NetSurf barfed at it. NetSurf's BMP support is very complete/compatible from what I've seen. It's certainly much better than the rubbish which comes with AmigaOS :) (fortunately easily replaced with libnsbmp code) Chris