Has there ever been a less interesting anniversary? Or a less exciting birthday picture? Let’s celebrate the life of a functional piece of software with a dull, faceless, lifeless automaton in the midst of a generic party scene.
Come on. Come on everybody. Put your hat on and join in.
He’ll never blow those candles out.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, THE MODERN WORLD, THINGS NO ONE ELSE WOULD TOUCH on Jul.23, 2009
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 9.64BROWSERS THAT CAN’T “DO” CMYK JPEGS
- Google Chrome 2.0
- Internet Explorer 8
Sorry about this one.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, THINGS NO ONE ELSE WOULD TOUCH on Jul.22, 2009
