The Customer Is always Wrong

In 2002, www.photo.net began rejecting images created in Photoshop 7 and saved as JPEG's. Their reasoning was that Adobe had begun including colorspace and other info in XML headers to the files. That's permitted under the JPEG standard, but it broke "some browsers," so they disallowed it. Three years later that policy is still in place. I sent this comment:

Please, folks. This may have been a serious problem in 2002, but it's time to move along. As you note, Adobe's not breaking the JPEG spec. What breaks are versions 5 or 6 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Windows. Here we have yet another case of those who respect a standard being forced to go through hoops because Microsoft didn't respect it. As usual, might makes right; if the King can't do long division, round everything off to the nearest integer.