On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:29:37 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Dave > >> Secondly, we need to test a new facility which we will be announcing next week, >> allowing the general public access to our scans. >> >> This access will be via a different route, and will not use passwords. It is >> however designed to be slower than the transcriber's route. >> >> To try it out, please go to http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl >> > >I'm back from my vacation and tried this and it does not work for me. I just get a broken link style of icon displayed in IE. > >http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl does give a warning > >"Images on this site are supplied in a variety of formats (jpg, gif, tif), and you may need to configure your computer to work with these formats. > a.. FreeBMD cannot assist with configuring your computer`" >After a little tinkering with file associations without any improvement, I tried a Google search and now think I understand why it does not work for me (for TIF format files - the gif ones are just fine). > >For Windows XP users Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 319829 seems to apply, which can be summarized as "Although you can download the TIFF file, you may be unable to open it in Internet Explorer." The fix seems to be an upgrade to XP Service Pack 1a, (Service Pack 1 is no longer available) and the guidance given is 90 minutes download at 56K for those without broadband. That is useful information. choose.pl is very much the first version of something which will develop further. -- Dave Mayall