Re: Galeon not displaying some gifs

Andreas Schmidt wrote:

> I've come across a weird problem. A buddy of mine put up some banners  
> on his
> homepage. With galeon from sid, two of these are not shown.

What version is the "Galeon from Sid"?

> According to one guy on debian-user-german, the problem doesn't occur  
> with
> Galeon from Sarge/Etch.

What version is the "Galeon from Sarge/Etch"?
 
> What's confusing me is that apparently the problem is not limited to  
> just my
> setup. Nevertheless, I am more and more inclined to believe that  
> somehow it
> may be a fault in Galeon from sid, after all. Any idea what could be  
> wrong
> here?

If "Galeon from Sid" and "Galeon from Sarge/Etch" are the same version,
it's possible that they use a different library to load/show images.

Alas I don't know which of the libraries could be the culprit there.

> Here's a snippet of the code from that web site that's supposed to load  
> one of
> the pictures that don't work:
> 
> <img src="http://www.reptilienkosmos.de/banner/468x60.gif"
> alt="REPTILIENKOSMOS.de" width="468" height="60" border="0" />

http://www.reptilienkosmos.de/banner/468x60.gif works fine here on
Gentoo with Galeon 1.3.21 (regardless whether I turn animations on or
off).

Regards...
	Michael (not a Galeon developer, just a user)


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