rejment·há 14 anos·discussHe clearly did not, because if he did he would have noticed that it works. That IE tries to decode anyway is a bug.
rejment·há 14 anos·discussIt actually DOES support the gzip content encoding for images. I just tested in Chrome 21.
rejment·há 14 anos·discussNot true. If you specify the Content-Encoding headers, Chrome and Firefox decode and display the images properly.