July 22, 2003
Browser Problems Caused by Photoshop 7 JPEG images
I have had problems with Internet Explorer suddenly not showing any images on web pages lately. This frequently happens when surfing Aftonbladet, and then the problem remains with all other web sites. As soon as I have emptied the cache and restarted the browser, the images reappear.
Very confusing. At first I thought it was because the cache might be full, as when stylesheets some times are not applied to a page (empty the cache and suddnely all works fine). In this case however, it seems to be becuase of a special JPEG format.
With PS 7, Adobe decided by default to embed XML-encoded "preview" data into JPEG files, using a feature of the JPEG format that permits embedding of arbitrarily-named "profiles". In theory, these files are valid according to the JPEG specifications. However they break many applications, including Quark and, significantly, various versions of Internet Explorer on various platforms.
Very annoying. Yet another reason to switch to Mozilla. More information is available on photo.net:
Browser Problems Caused by Photoshop 7 JPEG images
Posted by manne at July 22, 2003 11:00 AM | TrackBack