Re: Safari color management
Re: Safari color management
- Subject: Re: Safari color management
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:37 -0500
> This has been gone over before, and I'm sure Chris Murphy will chime in
> at some point :)
>
> Safari most definitely does respect embedded profiles; but since the
> vast majority of images on the Web are not embedded or even tagged with
> a color space, the real problem is how it handles these un-tagged
> images. According to the W3C - and, dare I say, common sense - these
> images should be assumed to be in sRGB. My understanding, and it's been
> about 9 months since I've tested this, is that Safari in fact assumes
> Monitor Space, which effectively means a null color transformation, so
> the color is passed as-is.
>
> The reason for this is, supposedly, performance - and I can buy that. I
> also don't think it's nearly as obnoxious as it seems, since this is
> effectively how things are handled in non color managed browsers - the
> color is simply passed straight through, and rendered in monitor space
> - which is important, since HTML colors and other color elements in the
> browser are handled this way too (Flash, Quicktime usually, etc). The
> problem really only becomes obvious when you try to use tagged images
> alongside untagged images.
>
> So I believe in some respects Safari is handling things simply and
> correctly - tagged images are properly matched to the monitor, untagged
> images get passed un-matched (basically, monitor space is assumed).
>
> I think this is what you're seeing,
>
> Roger
Thank you Roger. Your account makes 100% sense to me. And I don't mind what
Safari does presently in the interest of performance. *BUT* I'd like to have
it as a preference: please, please, Mr. Steve Jobs, add in a small ColorSync
section in Safari's preferences to let me choose how I want Safari to handle
the display of untagged RGB (and why not CMYK too) images to my display! Let
me be the judge of performance. I sort of find fishy the argument that,
somehow, color managing images to the screen is a performance hit in OSX?
When we have Gworld going on at the system level and plenty of CPU power in
IBM G5 processors.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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