Hooray for Alesis! Sadly for Alesis, its ‘people’ sent this out as a CMYK JPEG. Such a terrible error. CMYK JPEGs are a nightmare for poor bloggers. They look like JPEGs, act like JPEGs, but then don’t show up on half the web browsers out there.

Here’s one we converted to internet-friendly RGB format earlier this week:

Actually, thanks to us having nothing to do apart from check this sort of thing, Firefox 3.5 seems to be able to handle CMYK JPEGs. Impressive! Google Chrome can’t. Internet Explorer 8 can’t either. But Opera 9.64 can. Sorry, it’s not going to get any more exciting than this around here. Here are the findings in a list:

BROWSERS THAT CAN “DO” CMYK JPEGS
– Firefox 3.5
– Opera 9.64

BROWSERS THAT CAN’T “DO” CMYK JPEGS
– Google Chrome 2.0
– Internet Explorer 8

Sorry about this one.