Thanks Donald.
I was unaware of using the embed option, and that will work great for pages
that I create (although I'm not sure how many TIF images I'd be displaying).
My question was about sites I don't control that DO specify tifs as if they
were any other graphic.

IE 5 & 6 did this just fine (displayed a Tif just like any other grraphic)
until IE6 SP1 which broke that option, but MS came out with a hotfix (824220,
I think) that made it work with IE6 again. So what I was wondering is ..
ifthey had enough reasons to generate a hotfix for IE6 ... why they'd "break"
it again in IE7.

In my case ... we'll just have to stick with Windows 2000 for another decade
or so -- I'm just not exceited about losing functionality I alreay have in
exchange for features I don't really need. lol

"Donald Anadell" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not many browsers(if any) support TIF/TIFF images in the <img> tag, not
> Firefox, Opera, and certainly IE has never supported it.
>
> The most common way that I'm aware of is to use the <embed> tag something
> like this:
>
> <embed width=200 height=200 src="some.tif" type="image/tiff" negative=yes>
>
> You also need a plugin to be able to view them in a Browser, such as:
>
> Quicktime Plug-in
>
> AlternaTIFF Plug-in
>
> More info:
> http://www.alternatiff.com/howtoembed.html
>
> Good luck,
>
> Donald Anadell
>
>
> "DBme" <DBme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4ADB3DC1-8254-404B-B7A8-E156861DD9D8@microsoft.com...
> > The browser included in Vista won't display .tif images inline (img
> > src="xxxx.tif") and just displays a broken image icon instead.
> >
> > This was a problem WAY back in Internet Explorer 6 when SP1 was installed
> > and a hotfix was generated (824220) presumable because Microsoft realized
> > it
> > needed to be fixed.... so what's the problem in Vista?
> >
> > I was planning to migrate an entire office from Windows 2000 to Vista and
> > I
> > never imagined for a minute that we'd be going BACKWARDS in functionality.
> >
> > Is there a hotfix that "search" just can't find?
>
>
>