Jason Summers wrote me and told he had fixed his WebBMP plugin for use in K-Meleon. That plugin can now completely display bmp-s in K-Meleon and the right-click menu on bmp images.

The plugin is available from:

http://entropymine.com/jason/webbmp/webbmp-1_2_1.zip

Jason's web page is

http://entropymine.com/jason/

I still can't get this to work...

Type in the URL to a BMP in the address bar and KM opens as a text file:

<a href="http://linicks.dyndns.org/circles.bmp">http://linicks.dyndns.org/circles.bmp</a>;

Find a page with a hyperlink to a BMP, and KM wants me to download it.
(You can test both scenerios using above link).

*Just copy the plug-in to your K-Meleon/plug-ins/ folder*.

I have!!!

Nick ?

Maybe the MIME-type has not been defined correctly (I think it should be image/bmp or image/x-bmp. It may also be that the bmp should be embedded correctly (I don't know exactly). That page did not open in Opera or IE either. (IE offered a dialog and opened it with an image program.)

Try Jason's test page: if that works,

Nor Mozilla 0.9.7 nor NS 4.78 work with this link either.
Only IE works ok.

Bernard

<i>It may also be that the bmp should be embedded correctly (I don't know exactly).</i>

Yes, BMP files do seem to work if 'embedded' in a page(?) - but not otherwise.

Nick

I downloaded Jason's package and found a zip file and the .dll file. The instructions sed to copy the .dll file to the plugins folder, but was not clear what to do about the .zip file webbmp-src-21. Should the six or so files also go unzipped into the plugin folder? I don't plan to do any development work.
I also found in the plugins forlder that when I had upgraded java to 1.3.1_2, it placed a .zip folder npds in the plugin file which contains the files
npdlevtinterface.class
" obsproxy.class
" javapeer.class

Should I leave these files in the .zip folder, or should I extract them into the plugins folder?

I"m new to this stuff, so I need a lot of help.

The "src" in the filename indicates that it's the source code for the plugin. That's just for folks who want to look inside or mess around with the plugin, and they aren't needed for the plugin to work.

As for the java .zip file, I think that it extracts those files whenever it needs them, so you can just leave that one alone.

I think that npds.zip is not for Java. It is installed with Windows Media Player and it should be in the K-Meleon\plugins folder.

Some other plugins also use *.zip (or even *.jar or *.class) files besides *.dll in the same directory but usually just *.dlls are needed. E.g. Adobe SVG Viewer, which btw works OK with K-Meleon, uses npsvg3.zip besides npsvg3.dll.