Internet Explorer 8 Drops Support for CMYK JPEGs
Posted May 19th, 2010 @ 05:11pm by Erik J. Barzeski
This bug - what else can you call it when a rather popular browser just completely drops support for a somewhat common way to encode an incredibly popular file type - cost me several hours of time. JPEGs encoded in the CMYK simply show up as the little red "x" with no explanation whatsoever.
I wonder what percentage of the world's JPEGs are now unviewable in IE 8…
And come to think of it, imagine how bizarre this scenario would have seemed to a Mac user ten years ago: Apple ships one of the best browsers in the world, free, for Mac OS and Windows while IE is only available for Windows.
What???? 🙂
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Posted 23 Jun 2010 at 9:48am #
Who uses CMYK JPEG's anyway? If you really want to distribute something in CMYK you are better off using the TIFF-format anyway.
Posted 23 Jun 2010 at 1:46pm #
[quote comment="62219"]Who uses CMYK JPEG's anyway? If you really want to distribute something in CMYK you are better off using the TIFF-format anyway.[/quote]
A lot of people will find themselves using CMYK when they get a CMYK TIFF or something then use Photoshop's "Save for Web" feature.