Tag Archives: chrome

internet explorer won’t display certain images

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This is something that I came across over 1 year ago, but it happened again recently, in a slightly different context, so I thought I’d cover the topic again.

Many people don’t realise this, but there are 2 types of jpg images:

RGB (its what most people use)

and CMYK (used by graphic design companies)…

Often, you cannot tell the difference, unless you use an image viewer like IrfanView… where, if you view the image properties, you will see the compression field will be either “jpeg” or “jpeg, cmyk”

The big problem, is that Internet Explorer and Chrome cannot display CMYK images, while Firefox, Opera, and Safari might be slow to display them.

Note: soon after publishing this post, I noticed that Chrome could actually display CMYK images… probably due to an update.

Here is an example:

Logo in RGB:

ca13-twitter-100x50

Logo in CMYK:

ca13-twitter-100x50-cmyk

Obviously, you can only see the CMYK logo if you are using Firefox, Opera, Chrome, or Safari

chrome busy arc… clockwise or anticlockwise

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I’ve been using chrome / chromium a bit lately, and at one point I noticed the rotating “busy” arc change direction.

I never noticed it before, so I decided to investigate.

Turns out the arc goes anti-clockwise while searching for the website… and once found and the website is being downloaded, the arc spins clockwise.

I like it when browsers (and other software) do things efficiently… In this case, the space used to display the websites favicon, is also used to display 2 different busy signals.

Its similar to maxthon (google: take note): the refresh and stop buttons are merged, as you don’t need both at the same time. While a page is loading, you see the stop button. Once the page has loaded, then the button changes into the refresh button.

Maybe one day, someone will design an OS that will just as efficient.

google chrome vs chromium

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For those who don’t know, there is a new browser out there called google chrome.

What even fewer people realise, is that chrome is based on a browser called chromium.

I really like how chrome operates (but not the user interface, nor the lack of / difficulty in loading, useful plugins.

At first glance, both Chrome and Chromium look identical, except chrome has a small google logo on the top bar.

But dig a little deeper, and you notice a few minor differences:

  • chromium has an extra “customize” menu: “new window in profile”. This seems to allow you to create different profiles (eg a “news” profile, with different browser settings)… although this gave me an error when I created a new profile. Yet the new profile got created & worked fine.
  • chrome has a lengthy google “terms of service”, which concerns some people.
  • Chrome is currently at version 1.0.154.48, while Chromium is at version 1.0.156.0 (ie its newer)
  • The Chrome logo is a colourful metallic ball of blue, green, red, yellow, while chromium is a bland metallic ball of grey, blue, blue, and blue 🙂chromiumchrome

 

Both are very quick.

Both have a pleasingly simple interface (too simple for me, but I think most people will like it).

Personally, I prefer Chromium, but there is hardly any difference between the two.