links to images on Flickr

[JohnC]

Lately I've been including some images that are on flickr. When viewed on my Mac everything looks fine. But from my PC the images don't show up. And others have reported the same thing to me.

Here is an example:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornice...2031583/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/89/23203158...f2_o.jpg"></a>

Let me know if you can see the image in this post (and if you are using a Mac or Windows and which browser).

I will also put the image on another site and try to link to that in a reply to this one.

John

[JohnC]

Right now I'm on a PC with Internet Explorer and do not see the image.

[JohnC]

Here it is at pixentral instead of Flickr...

<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...kOopBx1"/><img src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ZnK...humb.jpg"></a>

[Paul Shields]

John I can see this image fine running Windows XP (Firefox).

However, when I click on the image (I presume so you can stay within the Flickr posting guidelnes), the image goes to a 'page not found'

[JohnC]

Thanks, Paul.

I don't even see a broken link box or anything like that. Just empty space where the image should be.

John

[JohnC]

Just tried it from FireFox and the image shows up correctly. Clicking on it doesn't work because there is a bunch of extra stuff in the URL. It should be http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornicello/232031583/, but it shows up as http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornice...hoto%20Sharing

John

[JohnC]

I was able to fix the link to work correctly, but still no image in Internet Explorer.

John

[Blinky]

I see it... Firefox/WinXP SP1.

I notice that you're using html anchor and image tags.



This is your URL with the SMF [IMG] tag. Can you see it in both browsers now?

[JohnC]

Yes, I see it now in IE.

John

[JohnC]

But the image in your post is not a link to the original (which is part of the terms of service for Flickr).

John

[JDArt]

John, use the img tags here, and your pic displays fine.

[Paul Shields]

I think it may be different on different browsers. The software for this site can handle hyperlinks and some HTML code, but is not foolproof. A way to show Flickr images on here, and to stay within the Flickr guidelines of ensuring the image links to their site, is to use BBC code. e.g. for the image above, it would be:



The image above is broken down to:


[ url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornicello/232031583 ][ img ]http://static.flickr.com/89/232031583_a65f0858f2_o.jpg[ /img ][ /url ]

(spaces added to prevent the BCC codes being interpreted)

There is a thread here goes into some detail on this: http://www.photocamel.com/index.php/topic,10140.0.htm

Unfortunately, the aref code offered by Flickr doesn't work well by default on the camel...

[JohnC]

Thanks! I think I can handle that formatting. Just need to remember it....

Off to fix some old links...

John

[Rokcet Scientist]

John, I'm on a Mac, and I can see the image in Safari, IE, Camino, Flock, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera and Shiira.
But I can't see it in FireFox.