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- From: Yoss@froghall.powernet.co.uk (Paul Brown)
- Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AWeb & corrupt gifs - solution!
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 21:12:54 GMT
- Organization: Power Internet
- Message-ID: <2617.6665T18T1804@froghall.powernet.co.uk>
- References: <9603262113.AA006zs@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
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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
-
- >--
- >"You're all going to die. A soldier of darkness has come on that ship
- > from the past. I have seen it. Don't close your eyes. Don't sleep.
- > It'll find you."
- > -- Amis, "The Long Dark"
-
- He can have whatever address he wants you dickhead.
-
- Post something relevant and try posting to me :)
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