Re: untagged RGB data
Re: untagged RGB data
- Subject: Re: untagged RGB data
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:40:40 -0800
At 12:07 PM -0500 12/20/03, email@hidden wrote:
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In a message dated 12/19/03 8:42:22 PM, email@hidden writes:
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>RGB profiles are small, certainly, but you need to get off your T1
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>line and back on dialup to understand the impact of adding 4k to
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>every single JPEG on the web. It's not going to happen anyway, but
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>I'll argue strongly that it makes bugger-all sense to load the web
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>with tons of redundant data in the form of zillions of copies of the
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>sRGB profile.
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I agree that sRGB needs to be the assumed source for untagged files,
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but I would also propose that a special case exception be made for
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sRGB, where it would be possible to tag it as sRGB without including
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the actual sRGB profile... that would remove the space issue without
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removing the needed information; after all, the OS and applications
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can have access to an sRGB profile without appending it to every web
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graphic.
Rather than special-casing sRGB, it would be nice to have that
mechanism for any of a family of 'standard' profiles. Applications
already do this with default profiles, and I had been under the
impression that that was what the ColorSync default profiles were
supposed to do.
As far as explicit tagging-without-embedding goes, EXIF already
supports that for sRGB, and supposedly the next version will also
support Adobe RGB. Doesn't html offer a way to tag files by reference
to a profile without actually embedding it?
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