Images displayed in Safari but not in IE

  • I am a newbie to wp and am trying to set up a simple blog for my wife. i am using the kubrick default theme and replaced the header with another image of the same name. I also activated the image browser plugin and loaded images for an initial post. The problem is, everything looked fine using Safari, however, when i navigated to the site using IE on the same computer, the images were not displayed. Any Ideas? Again, i am not very familiar with wordpress and would appreciate any assistance you all might provide!

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  • If you’re using IE on the mac, it’s because IE5 for mac doesn’t support css background images for much more than the actual body background.

    IE for mac sucks donkey doo.

    I bet if you looked at it in IE6 on a PC, it would look just fine.

    Thread Starter ima4ester

    (@ima4ester)

    i looked at it using IE on several computers, even firefox. The only time it displayed the header and posted image is on Safari.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Mac IE was discontinued 3 years ago. Support for Mac IE was officially dropped last year.

    Could we get a URL to your site please? There’s little we can do with the short paragraph that you’ve written.

    Thread Starter ima4ester

    (@ima4ester)

    https://www.tommiemcadams.com/journal

    The header doesn’t show up in Firefox PC either. I checked your source code, and both the footer and page backgrounds show up. The CSS for your footer is:

    background: url("https://tommiemcadams.com/.../kubrickfooter.jpg")

    And the code for your header is:

    background: url('https://tommiemcadams.com/.../personalheader.jpg')

    Look at the difference. In the footer (which works), you have double quotation marks as teh beginning and end of the URL. In your header (which we know DOESN’T work), you only have one quotation mark. I don’t know much about Safari, but perhaps it can read the one quotation mark whereas other browsers cannot.

    Honestly, those quotations don’t need to be there. Try either changing the header to double quotes, or removing them altogether. I’m not sure this is the problem, but it very likely could be, as it’s the only difference in the two that I see.

    When I try to load the header image directly, I get this:

    “The image a€?https://tommiemcadams.com/journal/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpga€? cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.”

    It could be that your image file is corrupt, but once upon a time, it did work in Safari, and the image is cached.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Prissed, I think you’re on to something there.

    ima4ester, the image is corrupt and Safari is the only thing that I can open it with. Even Preview.app refuses to open it.

    I found this thread while searching for info about this problem. I may have a solution.

    It seems that cmyk (as opposed to rgb) jpegs sometimes have this problem, especially when created by Photoshop. If the image is cmyk, change it to rgb and save. This may work.

    I haven’t researched this thoroughly, but it seems to work. YMMV.

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