Jens Hatlak replied On 12/20/2008 6:20 AM
NoOp wrote:
Obviously if you do a right-click on an image in the email and select
'Copy Image' you can paste anywhere.
No, that's what I was trying to say. When you copy something to the
clipboard SeaMonkey is actually putting several formats on the
clipboard. When you copy text and images SeaMonkey puts no image data on
the clipboard, only HTML with internal references to the images. As I
said, those references don't mean anything outside SeaMonkey. If you
copy just a single image again HTML containing an internal reference is
put on the clipboard but additionally the formats CF_DIB and CF_BITMAP.
Those contain actual image data and can be read by applications like
IrfanView. Word and OpenOffice can probably also read them but since
HTML was also put on the clipboard they choose that format and
consequently fail to display an image.
So I wonder if perhaps *SM* is not properly copying _its_ contents to
the clipboard rather than the 'paste-to' application misinterpreting the
content of the paste.
Both, in a way. SM is creating image references in HTML that make no
sense outside SM (a SM/MailNews bug) and the other applications do not
allow to just paste the image data which is also on the clipboard.
HTH
Jens
Jens,
If we look backward to the days of Netscape Communicator 4.x all the
images were saved in the Cache with their original filename and
extension. If you look at the contents of the Cache Folder now we only
have obscure names for each file saved in the Cache.
I think this was an intentional security enhancement to prevent
receiving virus and Trojans masked as a .jpg, or other extension and
then being executed to infect a PC.
Michael
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