** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr
2000 12:20:32 -0600
> 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?
Currently, my 4.72 is as configured follows:
Description: PNG Image
MIME Type: image/x-png
Suffixes: png
Plug In: Plugger 3.2 is checked.
When I switch from plug-in: Plugger 3.2 to application:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xv %s
NOTHING HAPPENS! Not even an error! From the command line,
/usr/X11R^/bin/xv gets the xv splash screen to appear.
George
