Why won't this GIF show in IE?

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Sep 09, 2006
by Calvin Correli
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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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I've spent the last 17 years learning, growing, healing, and discovering who I truly am, so that I'm now living every day aligned with my life's purpose.

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Hamilton http://hamisageek.blogspot.com
 

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
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Lars Pind
 

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

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?
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Hamilton http://hamisageek.blogspot.com
 

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.
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Hartvig
 

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

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

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.
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Lars Pind
 

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?
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