large JPG image (3000 pixels plus) doesn't display in IE7

[bdog2020]

Hi all,
Got a weird one. I have a very large JPG image, over 3000 pixels wide, that IE 7 won't display. Firefox displays the image fun, scaling it way down.

But, IE 7 displays a red X, as if the URL isn't valid, but it is valid.

Anyone ever seen that?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Vragabond]

Hmmm, nothing really springs to mind. It might be that IE has some timeout limit set for loading an image and this limit is exceeded. Does it not even start loading the photo or does it stop at some point and give up?

Interestingly, someone (hope that wasn't you) posted just this issue as a bug on the Microsoft forums recently:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3677457&SiteID=1

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[bdog2020]

Ah, problem solved. You know what it was? The image was CMYK color, switch it to RGB and IE displays it fine. Nothing to do with width at all.

Further proof that the "may the best browser win" may not have applied to the browser wars of days yore.

I'll check that thread, thanks vragabond.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Further proof that the "may the best browser win" may not have applied to the browser wars of days yore.

As I understand it, JPEG files are meant to use the RGB colourspace (which is then converted into YCbCr during decoding), so why should browsers that expect this display something different?

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[bdog2020]

ah, my bad then, I didn't realize that. Thanks.