P3D Netscape and JPSs

[David Spacey <spacey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Dale Walsh wrote:-

>I have  also provided a JPS
>link for each image.  It only works for me using Internet Explorer on my
>Mac.
>Netscape sees the JPS image as a text
>file.  I wonder why?

It's because Netscape are lazy programmers.  IE looks inside the file and
spots a jpeg header, so then it knows what to do with the file.  Netscape
sees that the filename extension (as you know, not normally a
consideration for a Mac) is unknown to it, and defaults to text.

God it's *so* embarassing to praise a Micro$oft product, but I do find it
significantly less crap than Netscape.  ;-)

In theory you can get around this by going to the "Helper Apps" part on
the settings dialog box and assigning, say jpegview to handle .jps files.
If some one has used Vrex's recommendation of an embed tag that won't work
though.

Hope that helps.

Dave Spacey

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