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Why won't this GIF show in IE?

September 09, 2006 · 8 comments

I’m at a loss here. The image on the right shows fine on my Mac, and it shows fine in FireFox on my Windows XP PC, but on IE6, it shows as a broken image.

Here’s what identify has to say about it:

UI11-badge.gif GIF 90x57 90x56+0+0 PseudoClass 256c 2kb 0.000u 0:01

Does anything look wrong here? What to do, where to look?

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8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Hamilton http://hamisageek.blogspot.com // Sep 09, 2006 at 07:10 PM

    Hi Lars, I think IE is playing tricks with your eyes. It looks perfectly fine. Sent you a snapshot from my desktop. Maybe clearing the cache with help ? Hamilton

  • 2 Lars Pind // Sep 10, 2006 at 01:05 AM

    Didn't get the snapshot, but I'm still not seeing the image, even after clearing the cache. Weird.

  • 3 Ulf // Sep 10, 2006 at 01:59 AM

    Yours http://www.tokes.dk/lars/UI11-badge.gif Saved with IrfanView http://www.tokes.dk/lars/UI11badge.GIF In MS IE it makes a difference, but why?

  • 4 Hamilton http://hamisageek.blogspot.com // Sep 10, 2006 at 02:22 AM

    I have firefox on the left and IE on the right. http://www.23hq.com/hgcphoenix/photo/1119915/view-large I could not spot any difference in the image.

  • 5 Hartvig // Sep 10, 2006 at 05:20 PM

    With IE6 on XP, don't see the image either.

  • 6 Thomas // Sep 10, 2006 at 06:06 PM

    I can not see the image in IE either. Neither directly in IE or from IE through Firefox.

  • 7 Lars Pind // Sep 10, 2006 at 06:27 PM

    Ok, it seems to be an issue with imagemagick 6.0. convert -geometry 90x90 on the original (https://www.uie.com/events/uiconf/2006/images/UI11-badge.gif) produces the broken output every time. Using the same command with version 6.2 produces a working GIF. Unfortunately, upgrading to imagemigack 6.2 on Debian stable is hard.

  • 8 Lars Pind // Sep 10, 2006 at 08:58 PM

    I've changed the code on http://events.boxesandarrows.com/ to make it a JPEG instead, which doesn't exhibit this bug, but it's annoying. If I try to apt-get install imagemagick from unstable, this is the list of packages it wants to install: The following extra packages will be installed: busybox initramfs-tools kernel-image-2.6-686-smp klibc-utils libc6 libc6-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libklibc libmagick9 libselinux1 libsepol1 libvolume-id0 libxml2 libxml2-dev linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686-smp linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 lsb-base makedev module-init-tools tzdata udev Frankly, that's just a bit much for my taste. Any suggestions? Go ahead and do it? Build manually?