| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 19 Apr 2001 at 01:06:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Voyager Image Decoders |
Hello Gareth
On 18-Apr-01, you wrote:
>> It is also the exact opposite of what the internet is all about. If you start
>> embedding ILBM, PCD, or BMP images in webpages you ought to be SHOT.
>
> I'll agree here. I lost count of the number of times I found images on my
> sites loading fine in iBrowse but not Voyager, only to find that I'd
> accidentally saved them out as ILBM from PPaint instead of GIF.
>
> I'm sick of Internet Explorer's inline BMP loader, it shouldn't be allowed
> :)
It does that only because the Microsoft image filters library does GIF, TIFF,
JPEG and BMP without knowing which is which from the application side
You just load it.. and display it. Much like datatypes. But limited. But
also device indepedant because of the way Windows is. But limited :)
(it's no coincidence that these are the image formats Windows Explorer can
show previews of. Watch ANY document format being selected and you can
see Explorer churn trying to see if it can load it.. but only those 4 images,
HTML, and a few Office docs can actually be seen)
Thanks
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