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==Image format support== Information about what image formats the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality. {{sticky header}} {{sort-under}} {| class="wikitable sortable sort-under sticky-header" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center; width: auto;" |- ! style="width:12em" | Browser ! [[JPEG]] ! [[JPEG 2000]] ! [[JPEG XR]] ! [[WebP]] ! [[GIF]] ! [[PNG]] ! [[APNG]] ! [[TIFF]]{{efn|name=TIFF}} ! [[SVG]]{{efn|name=SVG}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=SVG 1.1 Full Static Support |url=https://razrfalcon.github.io/resvg-test-suite/svg-support-table.html |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=razrfalcon.github.io |archive-date=2020-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920085923/https://razrfalcon.github.io/resvg-test-suite/svg-support-table.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ! [[PDF]]{{efn|name=PDF}} ! [[Canvas element|2D Canvas]] ! [[X BitMap|XBM]] ! [[BMP file format|BMP]] ! [[ICO (file format)|ICO]] ! [[High Efficiency Image File Format|HEIF]] |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Amaya (web browser)|Amaya]] | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[AOL Explorer]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=IEPNG}} | {{No}} | style="background:#fed;"| disable | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IECanvas}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IEXBM}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Avast Secure Browser]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Basilisk (web browser)|Basilisk]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Camino (web browser)|Camino]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=FFSVG}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Google Chrome|Chrome]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial | PDF}} | {{No}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56908 |title=Issue 56908 β chromium β Add JPEG XR support β An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. β Google Project Hosting |date=25 September 2010 |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=ChroAPNG}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Dropped}} <ref name="ChroXBMDrop">{{Cite web|title=27823 β Remove XBM support|url=https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27823|access-date=2021-07-23|website=bugs.webkit.org}}</ref> | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial|PDF}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=ChroAPNG}} | {{No}} | {{partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Dropped}} <ref name="ChroXBMDrop" /> | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Dillo]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} class="table-rh" | [[Microsoft Edge (series of web browsers)|Edge]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial|PDF}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[ELinks]] | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Falkon]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial|PDF}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=QupSVG}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} class="table-rh" | [[Firefox]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial | PDF}}<ref name="Bugzilla.mozilla.org">{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351 |title=36351 β Support the jpeg2000 (jp2k) format |publisher=Bugzilla.mozilla.org |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> | {{No}}<ref name="https">{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500500 |title=500500 β Add support for JPEG-XR/HD Photo |publisher=Bugzilla.mozilla.org |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> | {{Yes}}<ref name="webp.mozilla.org">{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 |title=1294490 β Implement WebP image support|publisher=Bugzilla.mozilla.org |access-date=11 April 2019}}</ref> | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozAPNG}} | {{No}}<ref name="160261 β RFE] TIFF Support">{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160261 |title=160261 β [RFE] TIFF Support? |publisher=Bugzilla.mozilla.org |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=FFSVG}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dropped}}{{efn|name=FFXBM}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Flock (web browser)|Flock]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dropped}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=FFSVG}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Galeon]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[GNOME Web]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[iCab]] | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Internet Explorer]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}<ref>'Internet Explorer 9 HTML5, CSS3, Compatibility, and More | MSDN', [Retrieved 30 May 2011], [https://web.archive.org/web/20101221030122/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740469]</ref>{{efn|name=IECanvas}} | {{dropped}}{{efn|name=IEXBM}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Internet Explorer for Mac]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[K-Meleon]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Konqueror]] | {{Yes}} | {{Optional}}{{efn|name=KONQJP2K}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=KonqPDF}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Ladybird (web browser)|Ladybird]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Links (web browser)|Links]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]] | colspan=11 {{Yes-No}}{{efn|name=lynx}} | {{No}} | colspan=3 {{Yes-No}}{{efn|name=lynx}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Maxthon]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | style="background:#fed;"| disable | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=IEXBM}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Midori (web browser)|Midori]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=WKSVG}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Mozilla Application Suite|Mozilla]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Browser]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{depends}}{{efn|name=ns8}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Navigator]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=nn-32}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Netscape Navigator 9]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[NetSurf]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[OmniWeb]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] | {{Yes}} | {{Partial|PDF}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=OperaAPNG}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=SVGT}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Pale Moon (web browser)|Pale Moon]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=PaleMoonJPEGXR}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=WKSVG|Safari 3 is able to render SVG documents, but not fully.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070612150045672|title=View SVG images in Safari 3 beta|access-date=2014-05-25|archive-date=2014-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011041909/http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070612150045672|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=SafariHEIF}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[SeaMonkey]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=MozAPNG}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=FFSVG}} | {{No}}{{efn|name=CairoPDF|With the addition of the new [[Cairo (graphics)|Cairo]] version in Gecko 1.9 it will be natively possible to save pages to PDFs but not read them. This feature is not included in Firefox 3.5, however it is possible with the new Cairo backend.}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Shiira]] | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[Sleipnir (web browser)|Sleipnir]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Partial}}{{efn|name=IEPNG}} | {{No}} | style="background:#fed;"| disable | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[surf (web browser)|surf]] | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[Torch browser|Torch Browser]] | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}}{{efn|name=ChroAPNG}} | {{dunno}} | {{partial}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh2}} | [[WorldWideWeb]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! {{rh}} | [[w3m]] | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{No}} | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{No}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- class="sortbottom" ! Browser ! [[JPEG]] ! [[JPEG 2000]] ! [[JPEG XR]] ! [[WebP]] ! [[GIF]] ! [[PNG]] ! [[APNG]] ! [[TIFF]]{{efn|name=TIFF}} ! [[SVG]]{{efn|name=SVG}} ! [[PDF]]{{efn|name=PDF}} ! [[Canvas element|2D Canvas]] ! [[X BitMap|XBM]] ! [[BMP file format|BMP]] ! [[ICO (file format)|ICO]] ! [[High Efficiency Image File Format|HEIF]] |} {{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=lynx|While lacking support for inline display of graphical elements, Lynx allows defining standalone image viewer and assigning programs to [[MIME type]]s. Such program is called when user activates corresponding element, effectively allowing Lynx user to add support for arbitrary non-inlined file format.}} {{efn|name=KONQJP2K|Konqueror supports JPEG2000 if KDE's viewer is compiled with Jasper library.}} {{efn|name=IEXBM|Internet Explorer support for XBM files was removed in Version 6.}} {{efn|name=IEPNG|Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with [[gamma correction]] or [[color correction]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with [[alpha compositing|alpha channel]] (for transparency) without additional coding [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649487.aspx].}} <!--MozMNG is declared above because of nested tags--> <!--NSMNG is declared above because of nested tags--> {{efn|name=TIFF|Although it was one of the first suggested WWW image formats, most browsers support [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]] by using a plugin installed by the user instead of decoding it natively.}} {{efn|name=SVG|SVG here refers to SVG 1.1 Full. There are also two simplified profiles known as SVG 1.1 Tiny and SVG 1.1 Basic, which are intended for user agents with limited capabilities.}} {{efn|name=FFSVG|Firefox and SeaMonkey partially support SVG 1.1 Full. Modules that are implemented or not implemented and details of their implementation: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SVG_in_Firefox].}} {{efn|name=SVGT|Opera supports SVG 1.1 Basic.[http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#graphics] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120604/http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#graphics |date=4 June 2012 }}}} <!--WKSVG is declared above because of nested tags--> {{efn|name=PDF|Most browsers support [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] by installing an [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] plugin which takes over the browser window. Listed here are browsers which also support inline PDFs within other [[hypertext]] documents (such as within HTML's <img/> tag). Note that PDF (in strictly speaking) is not an image format, but a scriptable rich text document format that can contain different types of multimedia content, including [[vector graphics|vector]] and [[raster graphics|bitmap]] graphics, audio, video, forms, intra- and inter-document hypertext links and a hierarchical contents listing. The format is also the native display format under macOS.}} {{efn|name=KonqPDF|Inline PDF viewing in Konqueror requires KPDF which is included in kdegraphics.}} {{efn|name=IECanvas|Support for the [[canvas element]] was added to Internet Explorer 9. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer can be made to emulate canvas using the [https://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/ excanvas] script.}} {{efn|name=FFXBM|In [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko]] 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6) XBM support was dropped.}} {{efn|name=MozAPNG|Mozilla applications rebranded by the [[GNU]] project, such as [[GNU IceCat]] or [[Iceape]] do not support APNG.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}}} {{efn|name=ChroAPNG|For Chromium prior to version 59 there is support via an extension.}} {{efn|name=QupSVG|Falkon supports as much SVG specification as WebKit does: [http://www.webkit.org/projects/svg/status.xml].}} {{efn|name=OperaAPNG|Opera is currently supporting APNG on their Beta and Dev builds.}} {{efn|name=PaleMoonJPEGXR|Pale Moon supports JPEG-XR from the first quarter of 2017. [https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/issues/105]}} {{efn|name=SafariHEIF|Safari support for HEIF pronounced in 2017 from version 11 on operating systems [[macOS Sierra]] and {{nowrap|iOS 11}}. [https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-answers-iphone-storage-woes-with-smaller-photos-videos/]}} {{efn|name=nn-32|32-bit version only.}} {{efn|name=ns8|Depends on the [[Browser engine|layout engine]] which is chosen: Trident or Gecko.}} }}
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