On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 01:54:26PM -0400, George Czerw wrote:
-> ** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr
-> 2000 09:24:14 -0600
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-> > -> I would like to be able to view .png images on netscape. Would any of you
know where I can get the plug-in?
-> >
-> > You don't need a plugin, at least for Netscape v 4.61+. Check out
-> > http://burnallgifs.org/images/burnallgifs.png as a test sample.
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-> Perhaps they do load in 4.61, but using 4.72, I get an "unknown or
-> unsupported image type" error, whenever I attempt to load a *.png. file.
->
-> So if anyone has any ideas, or would like to forward whatever 4.61 is
-> using to decihper these files, I guess that we'd both appreciateit!
Odd. I checked; 4.61 does not use a plugin to display pngs. Oddly enough,
my mime type is set to "unknown: prompt user". Perhaps there is a bug in
4.6.1 that displays pngs in spite of the mime type, which was fixed in
4.7x, and all you need to do is set the mime type to have netscape display
it?
Then again, maybe not. I set the mime type to display with an external
program (xv "%s"), then back to "unknown". Now if I right click on a .png
embedded in a web page, it wants to ask me instead of just displaying
it. I don't recall if that worked before I started mucking with the
preferences. Drat. But it does display correctly in a web page.
I have noticed that 4.61 is defective in that does not correctly handle
transparent backgrounds. On 4.61, it makes the background black. Perhaps
your test file has a transparent background and 4.72 has a worse failure?
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