[Typo3-dev] RFE: Remove profile data from images

[Ådne Hovda]

>>I today had to fight images not showing on MSIE under
>>Windows. Pfff. It turned out that the problem was caused by MSIE
>>choking on XML data embedded into a profile block of the JPEG files
>>(Photoshop 7 on MacOS X does this).
> 
> 
> This is a bug that only happens on IE with files generated by Photoshop that
> were not "optimized for web use".

Also if you take a photo directly from a digital camera, lots of EXIF 
data comes along.

>>Running all images through
>> jpegtran -copy none
>>fixed the problem.
> 
> 
> Since the bug is fixed in latest IE versions (I think I did read this
> somewhere) it is IMHO not worth to add such a switch.

Thumbnail filesize would in some cases be drastically reduced. (40k -> 2k)


I ended up instructing editors to run all images through jpgCleaner (a 
little win32 program).

Ådne