Broken image . . .

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:46 pm

There's this image that people often ask for that I have a very large copy of; I've put it on this page for easy reference. The problem is, it doesn't seem to be showing up, even though the image is there and the HTML is fine. What's going on?

~Erin

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:22 pm

It works just fine in Mozilla, but I just get a red X when I try using IE (and by gum, that is one massive browser-killing image!).

You could try using the full image url, i.e:

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<img src="http://hellsing.keenspace.com/resources/pentagram.gif">

Or, if that doesn't work, try the proper directory title, e.g:

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<img src="/images/pentagram.gif">

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:29 pm

Cope wrote:...by gum, that is one massive browser-killing image!.

Yeah, that's why I keep it on a separate page ^_^

Using the full image URL shouldn't make any difference, but I've tried it; no luck. It isn't in the images/ directory, so that wouldn't help.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:34 pm

SailorPtah wrote:It isn't in the images/ directory, so that wouldn't help.

It isn't? Where'd you put it, then?

EDIT: Sorry. What I should have written before is:

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<img src="/insertdirectorynamehere/pentagram.gif">

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:01 pm

Cope wrote:It isn't? Where'd you put it, then?

Where do you think? It's in the same directory: public_html/resources/. That's why the simplified URL was just pentagram.gif: because it wasn't in a different directory at all.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:14 pm

Second question: why didn't you upload the pentagram.gif to your /images directory? That's where all your non-comic images are supposed to go, as I understand it, and it may also be the source of your problem...

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:19 pm

I can build a stupid page and save the image to my HD, and see it in ACDSee just fine. But when I drag it to IE (locally) I get the same red x.

So I think the picture is too big for IE. Even turning on Automatic Resizing didn't help.

But I could be wrong.

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:23 pm

Cope wrote:Second question: why didn't you upload the pentagram.gif to your /images directory?...

Only the images that go on pages in your root directory (public_html/) get put in images/.

I have a ton of content on my site aside from the comic, and most of it is organized in folders like it would be on any other webpage. All the others work. It's only pentagram.gif that has issues.

Is it really just Internet Explorer's problem? Sometimes Keenspace has had image issues, but this isn't following the usual pattern.

~Erin

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:34 pm

Well, put a copy of the gif on your desktop. Then drag it on top of the big blue E. If you get the red X of doom, that's probably your answer.

Try it in Mozilla too, if you have it.