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V3xx can you prevent auto-downloading?

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Posted by: kyle16

ok i have a weather radar that i use constantly. instead of going to the content laden website, i just pull up the .gif file of the radar. no frills, loads instantly.

problem on the V3xx is that it can pull it up and render it perfectly, but it goes into this auto-download sequence and asks me if i want to store the image......how do i stop this?!?!??! i just want to be able to view .gifs and .jpegs at their full size without d/loading!

the url of the radar is: http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mo.../inmSIRTN_.gif


Posted by: RenegadeRick

Quote:
Originally Posted by kyle16
ok i have a weather radar that i use constantly. instead of going to the content laden website, i just pull up the .gif file of the radar. no frills, loads instantly.

problem on the V3xx is that it can pull it up and render it perfectly, but it goes into this auto-download sequence and asks me if i want to store the image......how do i stop this?!?!??! i just want to be able to view .gifs and .jpegs at their full size without d/loading!

the url of the radar is: http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mo.../inmSIRTN_.gif


I think that happens because you are going to a file, not a URL. I do the same thing to a JPG for the Snowbird snowcam.

Anyhow, what I do is hit the shortcut, say OK to proceed (due to unknown size), then hit the red end button when I am done looking.

Would this work for you?


Posted by: kyle16

Quote:
Originally Posted by RenegadeRick
I think that happens because you are going to a file, not a URL. I do the same thing to a JPG for the Snowbird snowcam.

Anyhow, what I do is hit the shortcut, say OK to proceed (due to unknown size), then hit the red end button when I am done looking.

Would this work for you?
no, because i want to see the file at its original size (640 x 480).....it works perfectly if i go to accuweather and load the entire page (which is a pain).....i just want to view the gif with no frills whatsoever.....


Posted by: RenegadeRick

Quote:
Originally Posted by kyle16
no, because i want to see the file at its original size (640 x 480).....it works perfectly if i go to accuweather and load the entire page (which is a pain).....i just want to view the gif with no frills whatsoever.....


You are right. It is quite a PITA. Do you have webspace?
You could make a page with a img link to the GIF and then go to that URL.

I made one for my area with this as the code and put it on my webserver:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Arlington Heights Radar</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="http://radblast-aa.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=LOT&brand=wui&num=6&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=1&t=1174009502&lat=42.10846329&lon=-87.97465515&label=Arlington+Heights%2C+IL&showstorms=0&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=1&lightning=0">
</body>
</html>


...but I can't seem to make any images on my phone display at full size. They all seem to resize to the screen width automatically. How did you get your phone to display full size images?


Posted by: kyle16

it only displays full size on the original page that i found it at....

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/radar-l...l=state&large=1


Posted by: RenegadeRick

Quote:
Originally Posted by kyle16
it only displays full size on the original page that i found it at....

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/radar-l...l=state&large=1


I couldn't get any images to display full size on my phone, so I did some digging, since you had obviously got it to happen.

While in your browser, select options and scroll down to help. From there take a look at Keypad Shorcuts. There I found the # key shortcut which toggles fit-to-screen on and off.

When I used the html above in conjunction with the fit-to-screen toggle it worked great.

You can try it for yourself at http://renegadesrendezvous.com/TNradar.htm. I even included the legend so you would know what was what.

Now please find your own host for this solution, as I will not promise that I will keep this page around forever


Posted by: RenegadeRick

Hey, just thought I should mention that I found the don't fit-to-screen option worked best with a browser session that did not use a proxy server. It seems the Cingular proxy wants to be helpful (not) and resize images for you.

The next challenge is figuring out how to make the don't fit-to-screen option stick as the default!


Posted by: kyle16

Quote:
Originally Posted by RenegadeRick
Hey, just thought I should mention that I found the don't fit-to-screen option worked best with a browser session that did not use a proxy server. It seems the Cingular proxy wants to be helpful (not) and resize images for you.
yeah not having that proxy is awesome! been w/out it now for a few weeks for that reason alone, as well as it being a little faster.


Posted by: kyle16

Quote:
Originally Posted by RenegadeRick
I couldn't get any images to display full size on my phone, so I did some digging, since you had obviously got it to happen.

While in your browser, select options and scroll down to help. From there take a look at Keypad Shorcuts. There I found the # key shortcut which toggles fit-to-screen on and off.

When I used the html above in conjunction with the fit-to-screen toggle it worked great.

You can try it for yourself at http://renegadesrendezvous.com/TNradar.htm. I even included the legend so you would know what was what.

Now please find your own host for this solution, as I will not promise that I will keep this page around forever
cool - i think this is the route that i will pursue. thanks for testing it out.




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