I am developing an epilepsy surgery database here and part of it
includes various images from the patients (MRI slices, X-Rays,
etc...).  The images are uploaded by some of the doctors involved with
the patient, who get the images from a hospital wide database which is
accessed via a win32.  The images are bitmaps or mime type image/bmp.

I am running zope, and once the images are uploaded, the users can
access them from my server.

The problem is, there seems to be some inconsistency on how various
browsers deal with the images.  On one machine with IE, it displayed
them within a browser.  On another, it sent a popup window asking how
I wanted to view them.  In opera and mozilla on linux, it asks for an
external app, and I can view the images in xv or ee.

IIRC, bitmaps are platform specific.  Is this why there is no default
browser support for them?  Is it possible to get plugins for the
popular browsers to support this type, or to simply configure IE to
view them inline?

Another alternative I am considering is using python's PIL to convert
the files to some more universal format at upload time, preferably a
lossless compression type.  I was thinking about a lossless tiff.  Any
suggestions here?

Thanks,
John Hunter

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