Why doesn't img src = blah blah blah.tif display a tif image

[sv_ansa]

I'm trying to use tif images in a website.

If I create a local page of html that uses img src= to display a tiff image, I get an empty image border with the alternate text in it. jpg's work ok, so I know the syntax is ok, - all I'm doing is changing the file name.

If instead I create a link to the tif image in the html file, Firefox has no problem rendering the file.

The same thing happens with Internet Explorer, so this is probably not a Firefox problem.

Is this some limitation of html in general? of img src = ? or something else?

[the-edmeister]

You need a plugin to view a Tiff file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format

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[sv_ansa]

Don't think this is the problem.
I have the alterna plug in, and as I say, the tifs are rendered fine by Firefox or IE directly, it's only when I try to display one within an html page that the problem arises.

[trolly]

One chance is that your server does not know which content-type to send for a tiff image.

Live link?

[Guest]

Browsers do not support tiff images without a plugin and you definitely cannot use the img element for tiffs. If you are seeing the tiff when loaded directly, that's because a plugin is being used. To embed a tiff in an html document, you have to use the embed or object element.

Try right-clicking on a tiff that is displayed directly. That should give you a clue as to what plugin is being used.

[sv_ansa]

Right clicking on the tif image shows a link to the Alterna home page. But I already knew that.

I looked up <EMBED, and you are right: I think if I use this I can get the plug in to work within html.

So I guess the answer to my question is that <IMG only supports gif and jpg file formats - at least I haven't found anything that says different.

Maybe you're wondering why I care - I have tifs and jpgs of the same content, with equal quality of display, but the tifs are 5 times smaller.

Found a great place to look up stuff like this: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

Thanks for the suggestions.

[trolly]

Try PNG. Most browsers can render PNG images natively so you can use the img tag.

[kavita menghani]

ok we know that for displaying tif image we have to use plugin for that.
when png,jpg is working so why not tif?