Re: Color management in web browsers, was: Printing with No Color Management (again)
Re: Color management in web browsers, was: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- Subject: Re: Color management in web browsers, was: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- From: René Damkot <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:15:32 +0200
On 29-04-11 19:06, Chris Murphy wrote:
Yeah but again, it's going to have two consequences that thus far no
one is willing to bite the bullet on:
1. Is the disconnect that will happen between CSS/HTML/images and Flash (or other plugin content). Turning color management on in the browser cannot color manage plugin content.
True. But flash colormanagement is flaky at best as far as I know. And
the only real problem would be a mismatch between plugin and
surroundings if the plugin content has the same colors as the
surroundings. Not a big issue I'd say.
2. We have been sending "sRGB encoded" images directly to our displays for so long, the creep of display behavior away from sRGB is going to be remarkably pronounced (in my estimation) if we suddenly start color managing content assuming present day sRGB as the assumed source. In the URL provided, you can see this even with orange colors.
Well, with the introduction of more and more affordable wide gamut
displays, I think color managed browsers become a necessity. After all:
The average consumer will probably think "moah is bettah" and go for a
wide gamut screen. And get oversaturated colors on non color managed
browsers.
Now, the sRGB version may very well be "correct" but a sudden change is going to get a lot of pushback from a percentage of millions of users who won't understand what's going on. I know this isn't going to get any better the longer we wait, unless we come up with a version 2.0 sRGB or something.
Same reply as above ;)
All I'm saying is there will be consequences and those need to be incorporated. The ends don't justify the means. We have to take the means into account. So far those things (in part) have prevented flipping the switch on this.
True, but IMO, the "Safari approach" (Color foolish*) is not the way to
go. Either no color management, or FULL color management should be used.
Chris Murphy
* http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page3
René Damkot
www.damkot.com
www.getcolormanaged.com
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