Remembering DOS File System Isn't a Good Thing

DOS memories mangled my images.

So johnfulwider dot com's masthead images showed up fine in Internet Explorer running on Windows, but not on IE for the Mac or Mozilla for any platform. Talking with my undergrad photojournalism professor yielded advice - check that they're saved in RGB color - that didn't pan out because the images were indeed saved correctly. The mystery continued and my gentle readers (all two of them) couldn't see that mysterious man with the Morpheus-style sunglasses, just my ALT text.

Turns out that traveling through my labyrinthine cortex to the days of Microsoft's Disk Operating System, the last OS I fully understood, I used paths to my images in the form \photos\title_bar_pic.jpg. You know, with a backslash instead of a forward slash. Now Windows, built as it is on DOS's grave, understood my backslashes. But nobody else did. Flipping the slashes fixed it.

Thanks to my former colleagues Anne and Gregg for pointing out the boo-boo.