As I wrote last year, for some reason Internet Explorer 7 will not render a
..TIF file as an inline image <img tag> as Internet Explorer 5 & 6 did. IE7
requires a TIF preview plugin (such as alternatiff) which is problematic at
best and VASTLY inferior to the way IE 5&6 USED to perform the same function.

My question .... never accuratly answered here ... is why Microsoft chose to
REMOVE support for this?

IE 5 did it just fine.
IE 6 did it just fine -- until SP1 Broke it.
Recognizing that it was broken, Hotfix 8224220 was generated and it once
again worked.

Now IE7 comes along and it's broken AGAIN ... no hot fix this time .. and
we're told that this is a feature (it never was) and that IE 5 & 6 never
supported it (they certainly DID)

TIFF files may not be the way to properly deliver dirty pictures within a
web page, but for legal and medical purposes they remain the 'faithful
reproduction' that withstand legal challenges .. and there are billions of
TIFF images out there ... so why this big prejudice?

"DBme" wrote:

> 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?