Xnview can open images from the web

[Drahken]

Here's a little easter egg I stumbled on the other day. If you take the URL of some image oin the web, and paste it into the open dialog in xnview, it'll download & open it.



You can also drag an image from your browser onto xnview to open it.

[Clo]

Hello !

• Great ! Both work, but here, pasting the URL is slow the hell to get the image…
- D&D is pretty fast, though…

• Thanks for that find, we'll add a note¦quote in our Manual…

KR
Claude
Clo

[Drahken]

Yeah, the pasting url method is very slow here too. I have a very fast comp & very fast internet connection, so I don't see why it takes so long. It only takes a fraction of that time to download the image in my browser. D&D doesn't open the file that's in my browser's cache folder, so it's not just opening the already saved file. The speed difference is a real puzzle. Still, it's nice being able to open web images directly from the program.

[xnview]

Here's a little easter egg I stumbled on the other day. If you take the URL of some image oin the web, and paste it into the open dialog in xnview, it'll download & open it.

You can also drag an image from your browser onto xnview to open it.

I didn't know that

[Drahken]

Heh, I found something even the programmer didn't know about.

[foxyshadis]

You can do that in most software. Since the windows shell and IE are joined, it'll download as needed, and if you look closely, the document's location will be coming from temporary internet files (instead of the url). One of the very few benefits of having them joined.