FYI - I found a flaw in Opera

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-04 05:03pm

Clicking on image links that use the txt trick displays a bunch of text, not the image itself.

Just wanted to let you all know, in case you didn't know.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-04 05:12pm

What version of Opera are you using. Im using version 6.05.
I get the same thing, but I would not call it a "flaw". More like
it lacks the ability to interpet the .txt for what it really is. ( a jpeg)

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-04 05:15pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:What version of Opera are you using. Im using version 6.05.
I get the same thing, but I would not call it a "flaw". More like
it lacks the ability to interpet the .txt for what it really is. ( a jpeg)

I'm using version 7.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-04 05:18pm

Actually, I found out that the txt thing works if you're posting with the img tags. If it's a url, then it doesn't work.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-04 05:25pm

Yeah I found that out too. Since I have a geocities account.

If you try the .txt trick while in the File Manager at geocities, you still see garbage. But I tried it with IE and it interpeted the image correctly.

When you use the IMG its actually the board interpeting the image and not our browser.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-12-04 05:36pm

Wow. I am such a music dork. I read the topic and immediately thought of large-breasted, heavy-set Wagnerian opera singers (you know, the ones with the long braids and the helmets with the horns). Music = life, much?

I have got to get out more.

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-12-04 05:42pm

Flaw? It's not a flaw. It's displaying a text file as a text file because it adheres to standards.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-12-04 05:44pm

Dalton wrote:Flaw? It's not a flaw. It's displaying a text file as a text file because it adheres to standards.

It's an amazing browser that presumes the person creating the link actually knows the right file extensions

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-04 05:47pm

Flaw? It's not a flaw. It's displaying a text file as a text file because it adheres to standards.

How does the board know to display it as a .jpeg ?

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-12-04 05:48pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Flaw? It's not a flaw. It's displaying a text file as a text file because it adheres to standards.
How does the board know to display it as a .jpeg ?

If it's linked as an [ img ] tag then it trys to make a picture out of the data regardless of extension.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-04 05:51pm

If it's linked as an [ img ] tag then it trys to make a picture out of the data regardless of extension.

Ah...I get it. I should have know that. Thanks.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-12-04 08:54pm

Zaia wrote:Wow. I am such a music dork. I read the topic and immediately thought of large-breasted, heavy-set Wagnerian opera singers (you know, the ones with the long braids and the helmets with the horns). Music = life, much?

I have got to get out more.

Me too. Maybe you should "get out" with me, eh?

Eh?

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-12-05 01:11am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Zaia wrote:Wow. I am such a music dork. I read the topic and immediately thought of large-breasted, heavy-set Wagnerian opera singers (you know, the ones with the long braids and the helmets with the horns). Music = life, much?

I have got to get out more.
Me too. Maybe you should "get out" with me, eh?

Eh?

The sad thing is I thought the same thing, even though I haven't performed music in two and a half years, and haven't taught for a year. Gah...can remove the geek from the band, but can't remove the band from the geek.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-12-05 10:44pm

This isn't a flaw in Opera. Web objects with text content types shouldn't be loaded as images. The fact that IE will load text objects as images is a bug in IE; the fact that Opera (and Mozilla, for that matter) won't do this is because Opera follows standards.