On 15/01/03 8:43, "Gerald E. Uhlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oh!  *Now* I get it.  If I want to view a photo album, for example, or a
> page with a lot of photo links on it, all the photos would load in the
> background while I view the first few.  Then I can just flip through them
> quickly without waiting for each one to load, is that the general idea?
> 
> For some reason unbeknownst to me, Safari downloads them all to the hard
> drive, and then shows them with Preview.  Then I have to go and delete them
> all.  A real pain, especially since the default for downloads is the
> desktop.  Makes a real mess, and there's no preference setting to prevent
> this.  I don't understand why it doesn't use the QuickTime plug-in for
> viewing photos, etc., in a new window.  Just download them to the cache like
> a normal browser, and empty the cache.

Are you sure you are not downloading them? If you go to
<http://www.macdesktops.com> for instance choose a picture that you want to
see in different sizes - just for test purposes of course. Then you have
five different options, AFAIK:
1) ctrl-click on one of the picture links and chose something in the
contextual menu. 
2) click on a picture link to open it in the same window, replacing what was
there.
3) shift-click on a picture link to let the picture open in a new window in
the background (much like tabbed browsing btw, cycle through open windows
with cmd-< )
4) option- or alt-click on any link will download whatever you chose to
alt-click on. 
5) cmd-click on a link to open it in a new window in front of the one you
were looking at. 

If you alt- or option-click on a picture link, and have it downloaded, it
may open the appropriate helper application, although it doesn't do it for
me, so something might be wrong in your settings somewhere. The setting
"open save files after download" could be turned off, but mine is on and it
still doesn't open any .jpg I download. Perhaps it is time to run a
permission check using Disk Utilities? This really could be one of those
permission things that went wrong somehow!

Cheers,

Kim



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