Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- Subject: Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:48:05 +0100
Am 14.12.2003 um 04:37 schrieb Roger Breton:
ColorSync services are there for applications to take advantage of.
Maybe
you're advocating for more 'intelligence' at the system level:
Exactly. Basicallly, I'd like to be able to set all generally sensible
parameters at the system level.
would you want to strip Photoshop of more color conversions options?
As I said, since Photoshop is an app that's so focused on imaging,
there may be additional options that are useful for very specific cases
in Photoshop but are not useful in general, and therefore not available
at the system level. But what could be done at the system level should
be done on the system level and only there; it just makes for
unnecessary complexity to reiterate that in specific apps.
I don't see why it would be such a bad thing to have it in a browser
as in
an advanced color application like Photoshop?
Primarily not bad, but unnecessary. What could you possibly do with
ColorSync options in a browser? You'll probably always want these
options to be set in a way that standard web content displays and
prints right; I can hardly imagine someone changing his browser
ColorSync prefs from web page to web page he's visiting.
Now, if one image from the web is very important to you and you want to
print it as good as possible, but the default settings don't work well,
you might want to change these settings for this very image. But
doesn't it make sense to use a specialised imaging app (Photoshop or
whatever) for this specific purpose? Otherwise you'll suffer from
featureritis. I mean, you might also want to optimize the contrast of
this important image, but you still don't advocate that a browser
should implement basic image editing functionality, do you?
So, it's "bad" at a "second level": because it's *unnecessarily*
complex, at least from the Unix and the Cocoa point of view whose ideal
is small, modular, specialised programs that cooperate.
But I may be alone in this opinion. I compare it to learning a foreign
language: tell me what the main verbs are, what are the rules of
conjugation are and I'll manage to
construct my sentence myself to remain in charge of the meaning I want
to convey.
Yep, you should be in charge. But you should execute that at the system
level, not in every single app. ;-)
Bye
Uli
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