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When I insert a photograph, the colors are muddy compared to the original.
This occurs with all photographs I insert.

What causes this?

I am not using the photo gallery/thumbnail feature, I am simiply inserting a
photo into a table.
 
Are you displaying it on the page in the same dimensions as it is
uploaded in? Or did you manipulate it's size through html? Large images
squished smaller will do that. Another possiblity -are you viewing in an
AOL browser?

A URL would help
 
OT E.T.- just had to laugh at the two of us asking for a URL. Which of
us should (s)he send their pc to so the original can be compared to what
appears on the web?
 
I like your comment about using an AOL ... or for that matter, an Earthlink
browser. Here's what I say on my HOME page:
These pages were constructed to be
viewed with Internet Explorer or FireFox.
Netscape may not deliver them correctly!
AOL and Earthlink do the worst damage if the photos are
passed through their graphics compressor.

--
Eleanor T. Culling
Leavenworth, WA
Enjoy my photography at
www.eleanorstravels.com
http://www.eleanorstravels.com/photoblog-issue1.htm
 
Thanks ET. The earthlink info is new to me and I will tuck that away for
future reference.

Re netscape- I think what you say re browsers may be old news that's no
longer valid. You must be referring to Netscape 4x and below. Netscape
4x is an old dead duck.... deservedly dead. There is no 4x version that
runs on XP that I know of. XP has been around for a few years so the
last update of 4x had to be before XP came out. Anyone still using 4x or
trying to use it deserves what they get. It's users amount to almost
nothing in my own site stats.

Last 2 versions of Netscape are Mozilla clones. If a page works in
Firefox it will work in Netscape 6/7. Most Netscape users are using
version 7x.
 
There is no 4x version that
runs on XP that I know of. XP has been around for a few years so the
last update of 4x had to be before XP came out. Anyone still using 4x or
trying to use it deserves what they get. It's users amount to almost
nothing in my own site stats.
I am running Netscape 4. 7 on Windows XP Pro. My site stats show 5% users
using Netscape 4.1 on some of my pages (which is why I have it installed).
But these users are from the same large corporation who are hiding IE and
installing NN4 on new PCs.
 
Thanks, Ronx. That's good to know.... and kind of scary. I don't doubt
you one bit as I still get a few visitors using very old versions of IE
(like 3). I guess people tend to stay with the familiar.

Netscape is my default browser and can't imagine why anyone would want
to install that old duck on a new pc unless they are web developers who
might still find use for it's troubleshooting abilities. I pulled out my
4.7 version the other day for that very reason while troubleshooting a
page my son had created. It made me shudder. CSS support, especially
inline styles, is so limited.

You're point is still well taken. You have to design for your particular
audience but think ET might scare less people away if she was a little
more specific about which netscape browser is being targeted.
 
FWIW, Netscape 4.7x runs fine under XP, and displays photos and graphics
without distortion. It would help for you to be better informed before
you post misinformation.
 
You are right in part. What I should have said is that netscape doesn't
offer it's 4x browsers for XP- they are marked for Windows 95/98/NT. I
wasn't trying to misinform anyone but was indeed my fault in how I
interpretted that info. Please check their download center if you don't
believe me. I never said anything about 4x browsers distorting images so
don't know where you got that from.

What this started from was a warning posted by someone else that a site
might not display well under netscape. I thought that old news that
might needlessly scare off some visitors since it scared *me* off from
visiting that site. I was not netscape bashing if that's what you were
thinking. I specifically said otherwise. You should read things
thoroughly and make sure you are also well informed or at least
understand what was written before you start scolding.
 
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