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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AWeb & corrupt gifs - solution!
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- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 21:13:36 GMT
- Organization: Hector's House
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- Phil Wright (pwright@crash.cts.com) wrote:
- > On 26-Mar-96 02:33:43, Paul Copsey was reported to have said:
- > >there is no official GIF datatype ;-)
- >
- > There's a Commodore released GIF datatype. That's close enough to
- > official for most people.
-
- Where?
-
- > >> I do not know whether the bug lies in the datatype itself or in AWeb.
- > >It's Aweb :-( IBlouse can view them fine (when it runs)
- >
- > Nope. It's the datatype. ZGIF 39.16 has problems with lots of different
- > Gifs being used in web pages. Probably the fault of some crap PC or Mac
- > image util but it's still zgif.datatype that's causing the problem.
-
- Hmm, funny that the same datatype views the same page just fine
- though in a different browser.
-
- [small note: I'm not knocking AWeb, it knocks all the rest for six,
- it's just a shame it gets spoilt by such an unfortunate thing]
-
- > Your probably using internal image decoding with IBrowse.
-
- Nope, turned it off in a desparate effort to get R5 working better.
-
- > >> GIFdatatype-39.lha 930403 5120 GIF datatype for OS 3.0 and up
- > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This one works fine.
- >
- > >This one can't do transparent gifs ;-)
- >
- > I'll go with the one that doesn't crash. :-)
-
- > pwright@crash.cts.com
-
- With an address like that, who's to argue ;-)
-
- Paul
-
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