P3D JPS Files

[Dale Walsh <dwalsh1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: 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.
>
> I do not think this works.  If I go to Preferences under the Edit menu then to
> Applications under the Navigator heading I then choose New and I am asked for
> Description, Mime Type and Suffix.  I entered in order jps, image/x-jps, jps.
> Then I must pick an Application so I chose Adobe Photoshop.  Then I  needed to
> put a file type where I typed jpeg.  Is this correct?

Dale Walsh
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