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Internet explorer and images

Post by MarK (CZ) »

Hi all,

I'm not sure if it should go here but here it is: :)
My Internet Explorer is causing me problems by not loading some images.
It loads most of them but there's always some which doesn't show (even pages on local disk). I was trying to find answer for this but I failed.
Anyone having the same problem and/or can help me?

Thx ppl :)
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Post by kettle_drum »

Do the images show in other browsers? Are you sure the images are present on the server and linked correctly in the html?
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Post by John Cartwright »

It is possible that you have set your security to not allow certain images, such as images with explicit content :P, check your security settings, there is a whole thing on which images are allowed and what arn't.
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Post by MarK (CZ) »

Pictures do exist (and they show up by [Right click]>[Show Picture]).
It's not always the same ones, on one reload they show, on another they don't but other pics do. It's random.
It's looks like that IE doesn't check well enough whether the pics can be downloaded.
It happens mostly on smaller pics...
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Post by wwwapu »

I had problems with PNG pictures some time back. Explorer (not IE) hung up while trying to preview some *.png. Problem has not occurred anymore maybe due to Microsoft Updating.
About PNG support you can read at http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html
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This happens a *lot* on slower connections to the internet - I'm not sure why but an image request by IE to a server is not answered (usually because your connection is already pretty busy) it can simply drop the image entirely - in fact it does not even show the placeholder anymore.

I get this quite a bit - one of the problems living in a rural area with no broadband..:(

Other browsers like Mozilla Firefox don't seem to have the same issue...
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Post by John Cartwright »

/hijack

lol, we should have a thread listing all the problems with ie

/hijack off
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

We should but who'd read it except the converted? :)

I use IE for one purpose only - to test compatibility with whatever XHTML I'm working on at the time. Other than that it too backward to be of any use - remember that XP Service Pack 2 listed popup blocking as a major benefit of the IE "improvements" - maybe they'll add tabbed browsing in another decade or two... :wink:
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IE still has problems displaying png-images. Sad, really.
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Post by MarK (CZ) »

Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:This happens a *lot* on slower connections to the internet - I'm not sure why but an image request by IE to a server is not answered (usually because your connection is already pretty busy) it can simply drop the image entirely - in fact it does not even show the placeholder anymore.

I get this quite a bit - one of the problems living in a rural area with no broadband..:(

Other browsers like Mozilla Firefox don't seem to have the same issue...
Seems like similar to my problem, only one difference - i have 2048/256Kbps connection (I wouldn't call it slow...).
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Post by Dr Evil »

Do you have a download manger software installed (ie GetRight)?
Check your Registry (in DOS type regedit) and look to see if you have the following entries:
inside:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PROTOCOLS\Name-Space Handler\

http and ftp.

Are they present or is there only mk ?
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Post by MarK (CZ) »

Both are present... And I have DAP installed as dl manager.
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Post by Dr Evil »

This is certainly the problem with your images.
Uninstall DAP and erase ftp and http.
Leave only mk.
Reboot and all will be fine.

There seems to be a bug in IE that makes it incompatible with these dl managers. (I now use flashget = no problem).
The images that most often fail to appear are repeated images such as bockers or arrows.

Cheers
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Post by Berethorn »

*off topic*

MarK, do you use IE all the time, or just for testing? If you haven't, you need to try Firefox. ;)

*on topic*
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