The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome 14 years ago
Yes it does. It always has done.
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Yes it does. It always has done.
He clearly did not, because if he did he would have noticed that it works. That IE tries to decode anyway is a bug.
It actually DOES support the gzip content encoding for images. I just tested in Chrome 21.
Not true. If you specify the Content-Encoding headers, Chrome and Firefox decode and display the images properly.