Luobin

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Ross <ross.lazarus@gmail.com> wrote:

Luobin - one additional minor observation: In reality, Galaxy does not do the displaying - it just sends stuff to the users' web browser for display. So even when Galaxy knows what mimetype to attach to a specific image file, the users' web browser response to that mimetype will always remain the final frontier. Not everyone uses IE where dark magic just happens :)

Out of the box, many linux distributions do not enable (potentially exploitable) browser plugin viewers for PDF or SVG for example - so correctly displaying some mimetypes will always be beyond the control of the Galaxy server.

EG: in 12.04 Ubuntu on my desktop using chrome or firefox, automagic pdf viewing on a 64 bit system took a fair bit of fiddling to get working - until then, even when Galaxy supplies the required mimetype, the user has to download the PDF and open it by hand.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Luobin Yang <yangluob@isu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried the pcx and ps formats, but the browser just downloads these kinds
> of files instead rendering them in the Galaxy window... It seems png and pdf
> files can be rendered in the Galaxy windows. How can I make Galaxy display
> other image formats like ps and pcx?
>
> Thanks,
> Luobin

I would guess this is possible but only if those other image types are
first defined in Galaxy as new datatypes (with sensible MIME type
values).

Peter
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