[Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs

[Eric M. Gearhart]

I get the impression from the Wikipedia article that TIFF is "owned by" Adobe - I dunno if Firefox wants to dip their toe into that for fear of Adobe asking for a license to implement it, or something 

Although on second search I see the libtiff project - I wonder why Firefox doesn't implement that natively... hmm. 

Anyone tried tiff-plugin? http://tiff-plugin.sourceforge.net/ 

Eric 
http://nixwizard.net 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Miller" <joshnmiller at comcast.net> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:10:32 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs 

I can't speak for IE 7, but previous IE versions needed a plugin to show 
a TIFF. 

I'm also pretty sure that lynx won't render a tiff :P 

-Josh 


Claude Rubinson wrote: 
> I just discovered that Firefox won't render TIFFs internally, instead 
> calling out to a helper app. That surprised me. Anybody know why? 
> Do other browsers render TIFFs? 
> 
> Claude 
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