Images in the Gecko message viewer

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Some dude is working on this, I gave him a few tips on why his patch was
wrong at some locations.

Among them security problems because of having an own brew predictable
algorithm for determining the filename in /tmp: you don't want a viri to
alter images that your girlfriend attached to her E-mails to have Viagra
advertising in them in stead of a picture of cute adorable puppies, for
example (imaging receiving such an E-mail, from your miss, gah!)

Feel free to guide this person if there's an urgency for you that the
Gecko based HTML message viewer supports viewing inline images.

http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/ticket/74

Of course once we discover the hidden Gecko API for providing it with
our own image buffer (in stead of having to write the file to /tmp),
we'll replace the code with that ... (looks like Gecko has no such API,
but it might be interesting to scan the source code of Firebird).


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