Four year old bug in Internet Explorer

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DD

I cannot believe that Microsoft still has not fixed the bug that forces
images to be saved in the BMP format, unless the temporary files are
deleted.

This has been around for four years. What is the reason?
 
DD said:
I cannot believe that Microsoft still has not fixed the bug that forces
images to be saved in the BMP format, unless the temporary files are
deleted.

This has been around for four years. What is the reason?
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It's not Microsoft's fault. This problem is caused by airhead web
designers who think they can stop IE users from saving images
off their sites.
 
Rick said:
It's not Microsoft's fault. This problem is caused by airhead web
designers who think they can stop IE users from saving images
off their sites.
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i don't recall ever having trouble saving to jpg (if img is jpg)

png is another thing... :-)
 
This happens on any website. If you clear the temporary files, then the bug
goes away. So it's not because of the web designers.
 
DD said:
This happens on any website.
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There are two main causes for this problem:

1. A full temporary internet file cache (in which case Windows
reverts to the image stored in memory, which for performance
reasons is kept in DIB/BMP format, or:

2. Website designers who send cache control headers that prevent
images from being saved in the TIF cache. In this case the end
result is the same as #1 (i.e. Windows reverts to the image stored
in memory, in DIB/BMP format). See:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2003/12/08/53607.aspx
 
Hi DD :-)

Could you post a link to one of the webpages where you are unable to save
the image as a jpg? I would like to test it on my system as well. :-)

Hope this helps :-)

Jan :)
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that's why they're so contagious.

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