On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 03:45:35PM -0400, George Czerw wrote:
-> ** 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.
Hmmm. Try just "xv '%s'". That works for me. I would think that an
absolute path would be more likely to work than a path dependent on the
environment variable PATH. Unless Netscape is being secure here and
disallowing absolute paths.
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