It’s a photograph of my television set taken from my phone as it miracasts to my television set.
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10/05/b56b594005652cc484fe5a54acd7f7d6.jpg
seemed mundane enough to share
Reminds me of a pinball machine
Or a 1970’s laser light show, with cheesy disco music.
Try holding the phone at an angle so each “copy” is rotated.
Did smoke come out the back?
Just FYI, the link downloads a jpg onto your computer.
Smoke is gonna out the back pretty soon. :dubious:
So? Every time you view an image on the Internet, you’re downloading the image file onto your computer.
So tell us ahead of time when that’s the format. That’s her point. That’s all.
No you’re not.
Yes you are. Your browser can only display images that it has loaded into memory. The memory block is located on your computer. The image file has to be transmitted to your computer. That’s downloading.
Cached files.
It’s easy to get the idea that browsing the Web is like looking through a telescope: that the object you’re seeing remains distant. But that’s not true. The page’s content is transmitted to your machine and stored there. It may or may not be stored permanently (and you won’t necessarily be told if it is), but it’s there on your computer, at least for a while.
The point is, it wasn’t a link to a normal web page. I personally don’t care for links that directly download a file like a jpg or pdf or word doc to my computer. I don’t like it, it makes me twitchy. All I was doing was giving other posters a heads-up that this link wasn’t a standard web page.
Sorry, posted from Tapatalk. I assumed I was inserting an image and not a link. Just looks like an in line image when I view on Tapatalk.
Did it actually give you a “downloading” dialog and create a file in your “Downloads” folder or whatever? That’s odd. I don’t think that’s the page doing that; it might be a setting in your browser.
I’m in mobile Safari, and it just loads in the browser like any other JPEG would.
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World
Party Time
Excellent
What has me a little puzzled is that the URL for that image indicates that it is just a regular JPEG being hosted on a Tapatalk site. If Happy’s browser is doing something other than just displaying the image in a blank page, one of the following things is going on:
- It’s not really a JPEG file, even though it has a .jpg filename extension. That would be a weird and bad thing for Tapatalk to do.
- The server is somehow telling the browser to do something unusual. I don’t know enough about HTTP headers to be sure that that’s not possible, but it would also be a weird and bad thing for Tapatalk to do.
- Happy’s browser is set to do something funny when he clicks a direct link to a JPEG file, like create a new file in a directory somewhere, or even hand him off to a different program. That would be a weird and bad setting for his browser to have.