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fucking reddit. Opening an image in a new tab to zoom in opens it in their crappy branded image viewer, zooming in makes the image smaller, and zooming out makes the image smaller as well.
Well Akshually.
Misconfigured MIME types on certain old web servers would display the raw data of any file.
I had an Executive who wanted to watch a Video from some “Motivational Speaker” (scam artist) on her iPad. The Scam Artist (Motivational Speaker) had it wrapped in a Flash Applet and when she contacted them about not being able to watch the video, he started soap boxing about how terrible iPhones and iPads were and that Apple is Doomed.
I checked the website and found that the MP4 file had the MIME type Octet/Stream instead of Video/MPEG4 and I created a dummy xHTML page with the appropriate tags.
The video worked perfectly on her iPad and her husband went on to watch the video, believed the “Motivational Speaker” and was fleeced for thousands of dollars.
flash
applet
xHTML
I’ve never quite managed to understand what the point of xHTML even was. Damn near all of the time, it was still sent as plain ole HTML
The structure was meant to be more strict syntactically, but almost universally browsers didn’t give a shit because it was way better for users to just “do your best” to process broken or sloppy xhtml/html
That being said, some of the rules meant to enhance the rigidity of html were brought in from the xhtml spec to HTML5.
While browsers will still do a “best attempt” at rendering the page, most websites aren’t even written in raw HTML anymore by devs, it’s either front end single page apps populating the dom or backend generated templates spitting out generated HTML, most of which generally follow the rules of html (except Wordpress, which needs to die in a cave)
Literally, I’ve had this happen on Fandom.com where I try to copy/save an image from a direct link that ends in “.png”, but realize it was a fake PNG when I try to upload it. It’s so annoying, IDK what the deal with all of these new image types is.
Basically since the Wikia rebrand to fandom, they’ve been owned by venture capital vultures, and have unsurprisingly dropped off. Stupid little nonsense like this doesn’t surprise me
I’m scared. What… What else could it do than serve a png image?
I’m pretty sure that read it wraps the picture in some kind of picture viewer thing. I imagine it’s an effort to keep you on the site or track your activity better.
And their stupid website prevents you from zooming in on the image. Or they disabled right click on it in an attempt to stop you from saving the image. It really is pathetic
Shift + right click will get your traditional right click options back
Also F12 to open the developer panel, then check the “network” and “sources” tabs where you can see every single asset that is loaded (may need to refresh after opening the dev panel) and interact with them in a list
Exactly, and pretty much everyone knows this. Which is why them putting effort into preventing it is stupid
Uhhhhh you overestimate the knowledge of the average user
Sincerely, anyone and everyone who has worked IT help desk
What website?
It’s a general complaint, not one website.
For the zoom issue, social media type ones. Not sure if it’s Reddit or Imgur. The frames and text content gets larger but the image stays the same size.
For the right click hijack, usually photography and stock sites
