Graphics under Radio
Yesterday I posted a long essay on the use of a piece of software, and wanted to accompany it with a couple of graphics. Several of my previous notes have included graphics, so I thought that it would be a simple task. I was surprised to learn that a graphic cannot be simply pasted from the Windows Clipboard to the Radio edit box. I did some futzing around and ended up saving screenshots to my hard drive and then copying them to the edit box from a quick and dirty web page containing the graphics (using the context menu, copy then paste).
The result was very pleasing in the Radio edit box and in the home page. I learned when I tried to view the page on another computer, however, that the graphics did not display.
A little further checking revealed the following: graphics are not in fact embedded on the Radio server when they are copied to the edit box. Instead, Radio automatically sets them up as linked graphics from the original location. If I add a graphic from a remote web page, as I did for this note, Radio sets it up as a linked graphic. The graphic will display as long as it is available from the remote server. If it is not available, however, as is the case with graphics on my own hard drive, then it will not display at all (except on my own computer).
7:33:51 PM 
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