Why do you block images embedbed images

Please can you allow us to embed images into forum posts? A picture speaks a thousand words as they say and its alot better to be able to embed an image rather than have to send someone off to another site to see it.

Note, I'm NOT asking you to host any images for us, just embed them.

This post of mine has an image embedded via the HTML but it isn't showing up.http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2084272&SiteID=1&mode=1

-Jamie

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# 1

You'll have to put the image URL between [ img ] [ /img ] tags in your post. For example, using the Google logo (and using curly brackets instead of square ones)

{img}http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif{/img}

produces

nobugz at 2007-10-2 >

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# 2

Thanks for the reply nobugz. But its not working correctly.

If you can get the html in this file to display correctly in a post then please let me know (cos I can't):

http://cid-550f681dad532637.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Misc/html_example.txt

thanks

-Jamie

JamieThomson at 2007-10-2 >

# 3

Not sure what your asking. The link seems to display properly when I click it. You can't embed the content of that link into a post, there's an HTML parser on the forums server that chucks out anything that could be dangerous. That's why you have to use square brackets to embed an image into a post instead of the angle brackets used in HTML.

nobugz at 2007-10-2 >

# 4

Sorry. I didn't explain.The link in my second post (above) is to a chunk of html that I want to embed into a forum post. I can embed it OK, but there's an img that shows up fine in edit mode but not when I submit the post. I tried doing what you said with the square brackets and it looked even worse after!

Never mind. not the end of the world Smile