"David Boggs" wrote in E-mail ;o
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Robert:
We are not the ones having this problem, so I can't vouch for these results.
But here's what the user with the problem reports:
1. Changing display properties has no effect.
2. All other images on the page are visible.
3. The missing images are not listed in the Privacy Report.
4. Yes, he sees placeholder boxes when SHOW PICTURES is toggled off.
I also asked him if when he views the source code of the page he is able
to find "bikerback.jpg" which is the filename of the leftmost photo.
He says he searched for it and it's not there. That's an unexpected result,
and I don't trust it 100%. It seems consistent with the image files not being
in the privacy report, but not with his being able to see placeholders with
images off. Earlier we tried renaming the image files with short file names,
and it didn't help.
I tend to think there's a bug in the release of IE6 he's using. We've gotten
input from 12 other users of IE6 SP2; 9 of them see the images but 3
don't, so the problem isn't unique to this one user. Can you suggest any
other explanation?
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David,
Please continue posting in the thread. Others may have better ideas
for you than mine.
3. The missing images are not listed in the Privacy Report.
Ask what precisely is showing in the Privacy Report.
If this was done when Show Pictures was off you would only see
the HTML page listed there.
4. Yes, he sees placeholder boxes when SHOW PICTURES is toggled off.
Did he explicitly say that he can see the placeholder boxes that you are
assuming he should see? This statement could be made about the
images that he already sees without any reference to the ones that he
isn't seeing.
Can he see the pictures then with right-click Show Picture?
Also, when Show Pictures is on has he assumed that the pictures were
there and tried to do anything with them, e.g. using the right-click menu?
I'm also wondering what effect a different BGCOLOR= might have
with this diagnosis.
Re: missing source code.
Ask for the result from javascript:document.fileSize
for both cases. The only explanation I can think of for not having source
but having placeholders is that the source is changing for each case.
If it is changing perhaps a varying size would indicate that.
If the source is changing it would have to be due to some kind of
third-party privacy program which would be intercepting the datastream
and actually modifying it before IE sees it. I'd be surprised though if
its actions could be dependent on the state of the Show Pictures option.
I tend to think there's a bug in the release of IE6 he's using.
We've gotten input from 12 other users of IE6 SP2; 9 of them see
the images but 3 don't, so the problem isn't unique to this one user.
Can you suggest any other explanation?
Find out if there is any commonality among the 3 with video drivers.
Make them check and not assume that they know what they are using.
I just remembered that I had to reinstall my video drivers after installing
XPsp2, though it was not for this reason.
You might have better luck reposting in a newsgroup which specializes
in the XPsp2 beta. Here is a link to that web portal:
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http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=xpsp2 >
HTH
Robert
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