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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
Mozilla can't handle JPEGs
My wife discovered tonight that Mozilla (including Firefox) can't handle CMYK-format JPEGs. Apparently there aren't a whole lot of these (they are usually RGB), but apparently it is a valid part of the JPEG specification. I understand people who do prepress-style work deal with these.
I was under the impression that Mozilla used a lot of image libraries to handle the different graphics formats (like libpng, etc.). I would have thought that whatever library Mozilla used for JPEGs would specialize in whatever JPEGs need and handle it just fine. Instead the user gets a broken image icon, or if trying to view the image directly, a statement saying that the image cannot be viewed because it contains errors.
This bug was reported four years ago.
--Donald E. Knuth
Mozilla only uses one image lib (Score:1)
Only Mozilla? (Score:2)
With Microsoft's tendency to snoop files against your wishes, that's annoying. Your server reports this is a binary file, intended for download, yet MSIE (I'm talking about 5.x and before; 6.x is different) snoops on it, recognizes it as an image file, insists on trying to show it, fails, and shows a "broken image" icon. Fun.
How would you render it? (Score:2)