"DBme" <DBme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

To the best of my knowledge, as long as the site doesn't specify the .tif in
an <img> tag, and you have a plug-in(Add-on) installed that will display the
..tif image in the browser(such as one of those plug-ins mentioned in my
previous reply) then you should be able to view .tif images in IE7 on both
a Windows Xp based machine and a Windows Vista based machine.

>
> 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.

I don't have any working knowledge of the Windows 2000 operating system, so
what you saying may well be true with regard to native support for viewing
..tif images in the Broswer. But I don't think a Window Xp based machine has
ever had any native ability with the Browser to view .tif||.tiff images.
Seems to me it's always required a plug-in such as Quciktime in order to
have them display in the browser. With the file association for .tif files
and the MIME type "image/tiff" handled by the Quicktime plug-in.

>
> In my case ... we'll just have to stick with Windows 2000 for another
> decade
> or so --

LOL...well, maybe three years or so, as far as I know all Windows 2000
support including security updates will be terminated on July 13, 2010.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell



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?
>>
>>
>>