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sebastian n/a

13 Apr 2005 13 Apr '05

11:29 a.m.

I donŽt know if this is a pure Firefox thing, or if there might be a chance to fix this trough Media Wiki. I activated raw HTML and everything seems to be fine in IE, yet it does not display correctly in Firefox. In Firefox images donŽt appear... Is there anything I can do?

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Rowan Collins

13 Apr 13 Apr

12:44 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

On 4/13/05, sebastian n/a <vogel_sebastian(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

I activated raw HTML and everything seems to be fine in IE, yet it does not display correctly in Firefox. In Firefox images don´t appear... Is there anything I can do?

What HTML exactly are you using to insert these images? Specifically, are you closing the elements, XML-style, as in: <img src="foo.jpeg" alt="a picture" /> (note the / at the end). MediaWiki generates pages which declare themselves to be (and attempt to adhere to) XHTML, which will put Firefox into "Standards compliance mode"; in XHTML (being XML), everything has to be closed, so an image tag without the extra '/' (which is fine in "normal" HTML) is technically an error. It's just a guess, but this could cause things to disappear. I wonder if the "tidy" utility, for which MediaWiki already has some integration, would be able to clean that up for you... -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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sebastian n/a

1:09 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

Thanks for your quick reply Rowan, my original code was:(the files used were just to experiment, therefore they still resided on a local drive) <html> <img src="file://X:/an_Vogel/Uebersicht.gif"usemap="#Map" border="0"> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="593,39,651,223" <a href="http://wiki.ptlls-ag.com/dawiki/index.php/Inhaltsverzeichnis#sti… alt="OFEN" title="OFEN" target="_self"> </map> </html> Even after adding the /> nothing changed.., I guess I will take a look at the "tidy" utility you mentioned..thank you:-) Greetings Sebastian

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Rowan Collins

2:09 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

On 4/13/05, sebastian n/a <vogel_sebastian(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

(the files used were just to experiment, therefore they still resided on a local drive)

This, after some experimentation, appears to be the crucial factor - it seems Firefox doesn't like references to "file:" URLs as the source of images, probably for security reasons. My thoughts about XHTML were, it seems, a red herring, although the code you pasted does contain a rather more serious error:

<area shape="rect" coords="593,39,651,223" <a href="http://wiki.ptlls-ag.com/dawiki/index.php/Inhaltsverzeichnis#sti… alt="OFEN" title="OFEN" target="_self">

You've shoved an "<a" in the middle of what should just be the <area> tag. No flavour of HTML allows half-a-tag like this, and browsers will probably think you meant "<area ...,223"><a href...>" - which you didn't. You'd probably have spotted that anyway, but I just thought I'd point it out while I was busy debugging what was going on. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Sébastien Pierrel

3:33 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

Rowan Collins wrote:

On 4/13/05, sebastian n/a <vogel_sebastian(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

(the files used were just to experiment, therefore they still resided on a local drive)

This, after some experimentation, appears to be the crucial factor - it seems Firefox doesn't like references to "file:" URLs as the source of images, probably for security reasons.

if you are not concerned by turning off some security option: in about:config set security.checkloaduri to false. /Seb.

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sebastian n/a

14 Apr 14 Apr

9:10 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

Thank you everyone:-) It was exactly as Sebastien Pierrel said. it was the security feature in Firefox:-) Sorry IŽcanŽt show you the wiki because itŽs running on an intranet:-( I thank EVERYONE for your great collaboration:-) Thank you Greetings

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dwen＠gmx.de

15 Apr 15 Apr

10:46 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Firefox and HTML

Hello Sebastian, On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:29:29AM +0000, sebastian n/a wrote:

I don?t know if this is a pure Firefox thing, or if there might be a chance to fix this trough Media Wiki. I activated raw HTML and everything seems to be fine in IE, yet it does not display correctly in Firefox. In Firefox images don?t appear... Is there anything I can do?

I don't know if it applies to you, but it could be a FireFox configuration problem. Once I had the same problem whith Image Links in MediaWiki that they wouldn't load, IE and some other stations whith FireFox were fine. I found out that cache settings in FireFox preferences set to zero value was the problem, increasing it to some value greater than zero did the trick. Regards, David. -- ICQ: 166975311 WWW: wendelonline.de ---Free your mind and your OS will follow.---

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