bmp not appear on web page

[Sylvain A.]

Hello,

I'm new with FM. I must debug a web page. We had an application running on FM4 someone import pages in FM7. With FM7 we try the FM web server and I have a model (layout) who works correctly in FM7 but the problem is when I try this model in a web page, some icon not appear or not the good icon appear. I think it using 3 tables. The major table can have some "X" for some fields and when it have a "X" it must appear an icon from an other table. Example: When the field Glove have "X" the icon Glove must appear. Do you have an idea why some icon doesn't appear and sometimes it's not the good icon appear?

Thanks for your help.

[Martin Brändle]

bmp is not a supported file format for web pages. Use gif, jpg or png instead.

Martin

[Sylvain A.]

It doesn't work.

I edited my bmp in Microsoft Paint and saved as jpg. I inserted the image in my database. In FM7 everything its okay but in the web page I see a red X in a square. I have some image who works correctly and I think it's bmp. I'm not sure but when I right click on the record (image) I have "Edit bitmap image". On another image who I sure its jpg I don't have "Edit bitmap image". So maybe its not type of image that is the problem.

Thanks to tried.

Sylvain A.

[Leader]

FM7 has one of the most sophisticated web layout engines I've seen, but it's also tough to debug.

First, be sure you have the most recent version of FM7... I learned the hard way with the first couple of versions.

Then, assuming your problems continue to persist, do what good web developoers do: Try multiple browsers, and one of them may give you a clue as to what is going wrong.

Besides MS's Internet Explorer, try Netscape Navigator, Mozilla (nearly the same), Opera, and FoxFire. (Opera tends to be forgiving of bugs.)

While you can successfully suck BMP files into FM and correctly display them, if for some reason you have BMP files showing in HTML, then Sylvain is right. Only MS IE will display them at the expense of violating W3C rules.

[Leader]

Sorry, Martin... I meant to acknowledge that you were right about BMPs on web pages.