"DBme" <DBme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C07E2E20-86E2-4213-A6C4-73719CB93443@microsoft.com...
> 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.

7/26/2007 8:13 AM PST
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...8-e156861dd9d8


> 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.


That's the way IE has always supported TIF files in the OS that I have used.
XP supports TIF files using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
(E.g. press Win-R and enter: rundll32.exe shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen )
Then just drag the fiile to that window. Unfortuantely I can't remember if that works
just with links. ; )


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


Why don't you install it again? <eg>


>
> 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.


I doubt there was a "hotfix" with that number. Did you make a typo?
That's why it's useful to provide Title text as well as a number.

Ah (reading farther down) I see you are referring to this

<title>Some Web Page Images Do Not Appear When You View a Web Page with Internet Explorer 6 SP1</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824220

but it states that it is for a particular OS

<quote>
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1, when used with:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition
</quote>

There is also a link in there to

<title>Kodak imaging for Windows is not included with Windows XP</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308979/

which hints that the reason might be that there was a licensing problem
after a change of ownership of the software involved.

In fact, information in that article when used with the DLL Help Database really clarifies
the extent of that support.

http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp...a=img*.ocx&S=1

FWIW I haven't all the links there but it looks as if support was limited to
W2K Pro + SBS


>
> 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?


Do you have Office installed? I think that there is also TIFF support in it.
Perhaps you would find its support more reliable than the third-party options.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> "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?