Displaying Images from a Web page

I want to display an image file by clicking on an icon on a web page.
I have the following piece of html.

<a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>

This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing application
not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.

Cheers

Slaphead

Quoth the raven Slaphead:

> I want to display an image file by clicking on an [link] on a web
> page. I have the following piece of html.
>
> <a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
> width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>
>
> This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
> want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing
> application not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.

No. The visitor may not even have a graphics viewing program. Or,
typically, the browser may be the default jpg viewer.

IOW, you cannot specify, except to tell them to right-click on the
picture, save it to their hard drive and open it with the application
of their choice.

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:35:26 +0100, Slaphead <>
wrote:

> I want to display an image file by clicking on an icon on a web page.
> I have the following piece of html.
>
> <a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
> width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>
>
> This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
> want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing application
> not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.
>
> Cheers

As BTS said, no, the browser settings determine which program opens the
file.

But let me mention two things. Using border="0" (whether one or twice!!)
means you're removing the most obvious sign that this is a link, so be
sure to make it painfully obvious in context that it's clickable. Also,
I'm sure you did this just for the example, but make the alt text a
suitable replacement for user agents which cannot display the image.

Slaphead wrote:

> I want to display an image file by clicking on an icon on a web page.
> I have the following piece of html.
>
> <a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
> width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>
>
> This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
> want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing application
> not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.
>
> Cheers

You can use RealPlayer:

http://service.real.com/help/library...ML/realpgd.htm
or use this http://tiny-url.com/8v
Chapter 7:
http://service.real.com/help/library...ix.htm#1056259


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Quoth the raven Jan Clemens Faerber:

> Slaphead wrote:
>
>>I want to display an image file by clicking on an icon on a web page.
>>I have the following piece of html.
>>
>><a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
>>width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>
>>
>>This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
>>want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing application
>>not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.
>
> You can use RealPlayer:

Hmph. I wouldn't recommend RealPlayer to anyone. For any purpose.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:


> Hmph. I wouldn't recommend RealPlayer to anyone. For any purpose.

Then make a slide show with Windows Movie Maker for .wmv-format?

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In article <3XD0d.22051$>, Beauregard T.
Shagnasty () dropped a +5 bundle of words...

> Quoth the raven Jan Clemens Faerber:
>
> > Slaphead wrote:
> >
> >>I want to display an image file by clicking on an icon on a web page.
> >>I have the following piece of html.
> >>
> >><a href="docs/picture.jpg"> <img border="0" src="images/image.gif"
> >>width="30" height="25" border="0" alt="Document Image"></a>
> >>
> >>This works in as much as the picture.jpg opens up in the brwser. I
> >>want the image to open up in the users default jpg viewing application
> >>not in the brwser. Can I set it to do this.
> >
> > You can use RealPlayer:
>
> Hmph. I wouldn't recommend RealPlayer to anyone. For any purpose.

IAWTP. Real is ****.



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