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feat: add support for rendering TIFF files in the web UI - #10510

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Closes #10507

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This PR adds support for rendering TIFF image files in the web UI. Previously, TIFF files could not be previewed directly in the browser and had to be downloaded. With this change, users can view .tif and .tiff files directly in the browser using the existing file viewer.

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@nopcoder, when you get some time, could you please take a look at this PR? Thanks!

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Thanks for the PR @kushalShukla-web — the implementation is clean, but we've decided not to take it for now.

TIFF isn't natively renderable in the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge), so previewing it means shipping a decoder in the web UI bundle, and we'd rather not add a format-specific dependency for that at this point. utif2 also only covers part of the format — JPEG-compressed TIFF, BigTIFF, 16-bit and multi-page files, common in AI and geospatial pipelines, either fail or render first-page-only. On top of that, previews are capped at 20MiB, and many real TIFFs are larger.

If demand for image previews beyond what browsers handle natively grows, we'll revisit it. Sorry for the outcome after the work you put in — we appreciate it, and would be glad to have you on other issues.

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