Re: use of sRGB as a default
Re: use of sRGB as a default
- Subject: Re: use of sRGB as a default
- From: "Steve Lawrence" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:16:17 +0100
- Thread-topic: use of sRGB as a default
Roger Breton wrote:
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It just breaks my heart to see how little is Apple "donating"
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in terms of color management information, nowadays (I know
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they can be credited for maintaining a ColorSync.com site for
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so long), as opposed to that Microsoft page JZ cited in his
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reply. And what breaks my heart further is that Microsoft is
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not hidding their intention, it's all there on their web
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site. Whereas with Apple, it's not exactly a participative
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process, etc, etc.
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That was all my point. Apple was there the first with CMS but
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now, looks lke they're dropping the ball. Sorry. I should
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have changed the title of the thread.
From my perspective, both developer (printer driver technology) and
user, I couldn't agree with your statement that somehow Apple don't
encourage participation in their work.
The MS link you refer to is a developer page for hardware developers.
Apple have similar pages in their developer website
(www.apple.com/developer), including both user and developer mailing
lists to ask questions. I'm well aware of important holes in MS's
documentation of colour management. Just as evidently there are holes in
Apple's. I don't see a great difference between the two.
Sure, the MS page does contain links to presentations on the Windows
Color Architecture they are building for Longhorn. These presentations
were given at the recent WinHEC developers conference. Similarly Apple
communicates their direction at their annual world wide developers
conference (WWDC). It's nice that MS make these presentations available
on the web, whilst with Apple you can get them on the WWDC conference
sessions DVD set that is released after each conference. The former is
free, but the latter gives you not only the presentations, but the
videos for each and every conference session which makes the information
more useful to my mind. It would be nice if Apple made the presentations
alone available for free on their developer pages, but I would also like
MS to make the videos of their sessions available.
Given all of that, I don't see how Apple could be deemed to not ask for
participation in the process of their OS and application development.
Product managers and developers alike are happy to hear good,
constructive, descriptive feedback. So I would encourage people to do
that. If you find issues report them through the provided channels. Of
course the trick is to make sure they are full enough to allow the issue
to be reproduced.
Regards
Steve Lawrence
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