Comments on: The last time I did that I was 16 http://doug.prairiegeeks.com/2005/06/04/the-last-time-i-did-that-i-was-16/ just your average cyber-crunchy psuedo-synesthete Sat, 19 May 2012 20:33:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Nicole http://doug.prairiegeeks.com/2005/06/04/the-last-time-i-did-that-i-was-16/#comment-28 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:30:16 -0700 http://doug.prairiegeeks.com/2005/06/04/the-last-time-i-did-that-i-was-16/#comment-28 Being the web geek that I am, I had to see the black rectangles for myself. Looking at the source, I found the culprit -- a bad attribute in the image tags. It uses the VML attribute "v:images" which is not a standard img tag attribute. From what I could find about the attribute, it seems to be one that is used by Word when HTML pages are generated by it from a Word doc. I believe FrontPage uses it somehow as well. Of course, those are both such wonderful HTML editors. Way to go state of South Dakota. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010549981033.aspx Being the web geek that I am, I had to see the black rectangles for myself. Looking at the source, I found the culprit — a bad attribute in the image tags. It uses the VML attribute “v:images” which is not a standard img tag attribute. From what I could find about the attribute, it seems to be one that is used by Word when HTML pages are generated by it from a Word doc. I believe FrontPage uses it somehow as well. Of course, those are both such wonderful HTML editors. Way to go state of South Dakota.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010549981033.aspx

]]> by: Josh http://doug.prairiegeeks.com/2005/06/04/the-last-time-i-did-that-i-was-16/#comment-29 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:31:08 -0700 http://doug.prairiegeeks.com/2005/06/04/the-last-time-i-did-that-i-was-16/#comment-29 Interesting. Although about 10-20% of the images were fine in Safari. Makes you wonder what sort of mystical, voodoo conversion rules Word uses. Interesting.

Although about 10-20% of the images were fine in Safari. Makes you wonder what sort of mystical, voodoo conversion rules Word uses.

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