Re: untagged RGB data
Re: untagged RGB data
- Subject: Re: untagged RGB data
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:07:22 -0700
On Dec 20, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Roger Breton wrote:
On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Roger Breton wrote:
Minimal intervention up to a point? I am suggesting the system asks
the user
to confirm the default sRGB choice for displaying untagged data in
Safari.
Chris Murphy wrote:
Why?
Because I positively resent making things along the principles of
"Keep It
Simple Stupid aka KISS" and treat everything as black boxes. I believe
Apple
should make these important, fundamental assumptions explicit for the
benefit of more and more users becoming color management aware: the
last
thing I want to spend my time on is reverse engineer another system.
You?
I don't think they should. I have not heard a single compelling reason
for them to do this other than "I want them to do it." That's not a
good reason. So again, I ask why? As in, for what specific purpose.
Give me a scenario.
Give the user access to some preferences in the form of a dialog box
where
he (she) can override that default setting if he (she) deems so.
Chris Murphy wrote:
Why?
If for some reason I want to change the assumed profile to my display
profile or another profile in the future.
For some reason? *What* reason? Why in the world would you need to do
this in a frigging WEB BROWSER?
Let's stop crippling the system
with factory-baked, Stallinian-style, unflexible choices -- give more
power
to the masses! To me, the power of a color management system lies in
its
flexibility and documentation. What's so bad about that in your
opinion?
The part about giving more power to the masses, most of whom have no
frigging clue about color management, or gamma, or why they'd want one
or the other, and have no idea what the originator intended anyway. It
makes things more complicated. When it comes to the internet, there's
far less good and far more bad to handing people a tool to override
sRGB as the assumed source for untagged images. Again, it's a web
browser.
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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