281052 - Unable to display AOL .ART graphic files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153450

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Emma Webb-Hobson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

I use Mozilla Firefox as my default graphics viewer. This is becasue it suits
the job I do as the pixel information and particularly the reduction percentage
information displayed at the top during printing are extremly useful. However I
have a required to be able to display and print .art files in the same way,
currently that is not possible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a .art image
2. Select 'Open With'
3. Select Mozilla Firefox

Actual Results:  
Broken image icon displayed

Expected Results:  
Displayed the .art file!

Comment 1

[Robert Wukich]

I google searched for .art files to test on and I dont get a pretty result when
it comes to the following site:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/prncssvi/aol/neko2.art
I tried to open this in a new tab and it kept popping up asking me to save it
(almost like a loop). If I select to remember this setting every time it pops
open about 15-20 windows. This is repeatable for me, I do not even get the
broken image, I don't get any image...

- Waterhead

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

This is WONTFIX.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153450 ***

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I tried to open this in a new tab and it kept popping up asking me to save it
> (almost like a loop). If I select to remember this setting every time it pops
> open about 15-20 windows. This is repeatable for me, I do not even get the
> broken image, I don't get any image...

This seems to be Bug 167320.

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

Is .art Illustrator illustration files? I don't have one to hand, but
you may find that they are either EPS or PDF.

It might be possible to make a viewer using SVG fairly easily.

If you want to use Mozilla as an image viewer, you might want to create a XUL
application that does just that. See http://www.mozdev.org/projects/active.html

Comment 5

[Emma Webb-Hobson]

Are you crazy??!! That's way out of my league I'm afraid, and unfortunately I
don't really have the time to invest either. Thanks for the advice though. Maybe
someone else who fancies a bit of a project could do it and Mozilla could put it
on their website for download?

Comment 6

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Are you crazy??!! That's way out of my league I'm afraid, and unfortunately I
> don't really have the time to invest either. Thanks for the advice though. 
> Maybe someone else who fancies a bit of a project could do it and Mozilla 
> could put it on their website for download?

Well, I am crazy, but that is orthogonal to the fact that Mozilla is a
Rapid Development Environment (of sorts) and if you wanted, you could have 
your very  own browser, one that exactly matched your requirements, worked 
the way you do and could be artful and crafty rather than bloated and crufty. 
See  whatever Google provides for you on a search for "Let a thousand 
browsers bloom", various articles on the O'Reilly site and more closely, 
Nigel Macfarlane's book http://authors.phptr.com/mcfarlane/ 

I appreciate that getting started is more difficult than it should be for 
a project that is ought to be trying to attract developer mindshare, and 
that is one of the reasons why I seem to have joined the Bugzilla league of 
people who want to see Mozilla improved; if you know your Omar Khayyam, 
"... grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would we not 
shatter it to bits—and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!"

In elder days, the kind of project that I had in mind was 10 minutes in
Hypercard or 5 minutes in Supercard. Mozilla ought to have XUL runners
and XUL editors that occupy that niche.

The reson why I came here again was to add that I had found a project that
I had not last week, to wit, http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/mozImage 

Comment 7

[Emma Webb-Hobson]

er... thanks?!