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Re: displaying local (client side) images in webpage

Oct 24th, 2007

Whether or not a browser allows a page to reference files on a user's computer in any way is dependant on the browser and perhaps security settings; although, it's certainly been possible in previous IE versions to display images that are stored on a user's PC via a webpage, regardless of the host of the webpage. For that user only of course...

This works for me in IE6:

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<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<img src="file://c:/synd.gif"/>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<img src="file://c:/synd.gif"/>
</body>
</html>

But not in Opera or Firefox.. Dunno about IE7. Opera and Firefox only allow this when the host is the localhost - in other words; when the page referencing the image is also on the user's PC.

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