I came across a gif recently on a website that loaded fine in most browsers but failed to load in IE (Internet Explorer). Fortunately, I remembered a similar problem in the past (that I spent way too long figuring out).
Issue
The issue was the image file was actually a PNG but the filename had been changed from image.png
to image.gif
. Most browsers handled this mislabeling by gracefully and displayed the image anyway. Unfortunately, IE does not handle this gracefully.
Solution
If you have a file ending in .gif
that displays in most browsers but not in IE, try renaming it to end in .png
.
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