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johnfowles · 08-09-2004, 10:27 AM

quote:Originally posted by GhostofCapeHorn:
[img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Ryan/Desktop/IMG_0740.jpg[/img]

Im the one on your left... and this is not dmd3... pleeeaaase!
Hi Ryan Hoover
As your mother found out on her topic
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002480.html
you have to use a web site URL...
you used, like she did, a hard drive address viz:-
"C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Ryan/Desktop/IMG_0740.jpg"
To emphasize what I said on her topic your browser (most likely Internet Explorer) is probably set up to be the default viewer for [list=A]
<LI>all web sites,and
<LI>web style pages (i.e. files ending in .htm or .html and
<LI>at the same time most or even all graphic files such as .jpg and .gif [/list=A]
( some gifs are animated pics as the honourable stationmaster is now so adept at finding and displaying.Hence if you paste in a hard drive address ending in .jpg to a web page such as this topic page. The poor old browser foils you by displaying the actual corfid page and at the same time links to your computers hard drive to display the picture. Hence to you everything is fine and dandy but to the rest of us our browsers do not have acess to your hard drive so the result is the page includes a red cross in a white square symbol.
But if you sent everybody your actual jpg file by e-mail and asked them to put it into a folder with the exact same name as on your computer they would then see it too. The lesson is the URL of the picture must be a web site one starting with http. I hope this helps.Geddit???

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08-09-2004, 10:27 AM	#18
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by GhostofCapeHorn: [img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Ryan/Desktop/IMG_0740.jpg[/img] Im the one on your left... and this is not dmd3... pleeeaaase! Hi Ryan Hoover As your mother found out on her topic http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002480.html you have to use a web site URL... you used, like she did, a hard drive address viz:- "C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Ryan/Desktop/IMG_0740.jpg" To emphasize what I said on her topic your browser (most likely Internet Explorer) is probably set up to be the default viewer for [list=A] <LI>all web sites,and <LI>web style pages (i.e. files ending in .htm or .html and <LI>at the same time most or even all graphic files such as .jpg and .gif [/list=A] ( some gifs are animated pics as the honourable stationmaster is now so adept at finding and displaying.Hence if you paste in a hard drive address ending in .jpg to a web page such as this topic page. The poor old browser foils you by displaying the actual corfid page and at the same time links to your computers hard drive to display the picture. Hence to you everything is fine and dandy but to the rest of us our browsers do not have acess to your hard drive so the result is the page includes a red cross in a white square symbol. But if you sent everybody your actual jpg file by e-mail and asked them to put it into a folder with the exact same name as on your computer they would then see it too. The lesson is the URL of the picture must be a web site one starting with http. I hope this helps.Geddit??? ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot edited to add numbered list section [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited August 09, 2004).] [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited August 09, 2004).] [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited August 09, 2004).]