IE6 - can't load a normal JPG

Question

Try loading this normal .jpg file in Internet Explorer 6.0. I get an error saying the picture won\'t load. Try it in any other browser and it works fine. What\'s wrong? The

Answer 1

The JPG you uploaded is in CMYK, IE and Firefox versions before 3 can't read these. Open it using Photoshop (or anything similar, I'm sure GIMP would work too) and resave it in RGB.

edit: Further Googling makes me suspect that CMYK isn't really a part of the jpeg standard, but can be shoehorned in there. That's why some software does not consider the file valid. It does however open just fine in Photoshop CS3, and shows a cmyk colorspace.