Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- Subject: Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:30:24 -0700
I forgot to add something on this issue:
I wrote:
c.) It's not consistent with the ColorSync Preferences dialog which
says the selected default profiles will be used as source for
documents that don't have embedded profiles. This window's
phraseology is at best misleading. What applications use these
settings "when a document does not contain embedded profiles?" It
does not also tell the user "your application must be written to
specifically ask ColorSync what these settings are, or these settings
don't do anything."
On Dec 18, 2003, at 4:31 PM, John Gnaegy wrote:
Ideally at some point it'd be nice to have a user configurable
equivalent of a system wide working space, I agree from a color geek
standpoint. From a performance standpoint it's a win the way it is
now without being completely unreasonable. Remember, everything is
matched as you'd expect if the image data has an embedded profile.
At some point? For three or four major versions of the operating system
this message has been there with respect to the default profiles, and
it just not telling the truth. So until it's true, does it sound like a
good idea to put that sentence into storage? Even no description would
be better than the one that's there now.
It's a confusing message to users who fiddle with these settings and
NOTHING happens. When they are finally resolved that they don't do
anything, it tarnishes color management in general, and ColorSync
specifically as a technology that doesn't work no matter how many hoops
you jump through. I can't say I find user reaction at all surprising
either - the message clearly says "if x then y" and yet that is almost
NEVER the case! It's enough to drive me insane and I already know it
doesn't do what it says it does.
Stuff needs to work the way it claims to, or don't put it in. This is
one of them. Let's see in 10.3.3 that little sentence just stricken
out. When it's the truth, put it back in.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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| >Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: John Fieber <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: John Fieber <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: Grant Symon <email@hidden>) |
| >Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers (From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>) |