Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- Subject: Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- From: Ric Cohn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:10:17 -0500
John Gnaegy wrote
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Safari assumes untagged images to be in the space of the default
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display's profile. This is the same behavior as Preview, so the nice
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thing is an image opened in Preview looks the same as an image opened
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in Safari, whether it has an embedded profile or not. If you have
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multiple displays you can set which one is the default using ColorSync
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Utility. Assigning any profile to untagged data is always a guessing
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game since you have no idea what the creation environment was. A case
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could have been made on either side of the issue, either assuming sRGB
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or assuming the display's profile, basically a no op. I imagine the
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choice came down on the side of assuming the display's profile for
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untagged data in order to have a unified behavior with other cocoa apps
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on the system.
Perhaps I don't fully understand, but this seems like an appallingly
bad decision to me. Virtually no images displayed in Panther are likely
to have been created on the computer displaying the images. Why would I
want the images to match images created on my computer using a
non-color savvy program? Based on the previous behavior of all other
browsers that I'm aware of, I've always converted my images to sRGB for
web display, and I believe a majority of the images created by web
designers for the web make the same assumption.
Ric Cohn
email@hidden
http://www.riccohn.com
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