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I inherited a website to maintain, and it has an oddity that
mystifies me.
This website is on the Internet, and I have an exact copy - same
directory structure and files - on my personal (Windows98) machine.
On the starting page there are three links to a 2K GIF - a small
clipart picture of a file cabinet. They look fine when I view them
on the Internet with either IE4 or Navigator 4.
When I view the same page on my personal machine, however, Navigator
4 sees it OK, but IE4 shows me a little red x where each file
cabinet should be. What can it be about a GIF that lets IE4 see it
OK from a remote URL but not from my local machine?
I also tried opening the file cabinet GIF directly with IE4 (rather
than via a link from the local version of the starting page). Same
red x.
Any clues? ...RM
Richard Mateosian <srm -at- cyberpass -dot- net> www.cyberpass.net/~srm/
Review Editor, IEEE Micro Berkeley, CA
