[Moin-user] bug? no image display from local files in standal one mode

[Nigel Harper]

> I investigated a bit further and found out it's not a 
> problem in
> MoinMoin, it's the browser. The HTML for the page does contain an img
> tag to the image, but Firefox[1] doesn't follow file:// links from
> http:// urls. IE appears to show them at least at default settings.

IIRC this is by design in Firefox - accessing local content (file://) from
what is assumed to be a remote url is considered insecure and is blocked by
the default settings.

There's probably a way to enable it for trusted locations if you poke
around.

Nigel