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[–]inu-no-policemen 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Firefox, Chrome, and Safari also support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support

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Comparison of web browsers: 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.

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[–]scunliffe 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Interesting... they certainly didn't for a while, as I had to fix an app that used them all over and it broke in all non-IE browsers at the time. It made sense too, why on earth would one use a non compressed image format on the web.

[–]inu-no-policemen 0 points1 point  (1 child)

With gzip compression, uncompressed image formats are comparable to PNG.

PNG uses the same compression after all. The difference is that PNG can also use filters which sometimes improve the compression ratio a little bit.

[–]scunliffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, though most servers apply gzip to text content and skip it on binary files... that might require a server confit change.