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: Ernst Dinkla <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:10:03 +0200
On 04/30/2011 04:34 PM, G Mike Adams wrote:
It sounds to me like exactly the same thing because in both cases,
Apple seems to have taken a contrarian stance that's not very
workable, and then defends it with some pretty far-fetched
rationalizations, which sure appear to boil down to nothing so much
as arrogance and stubbornness.
The issue here is only that Safari on a Mac assumes the color
profile of any untagged image--as well as all html color--as the
monitor profile of the individual system. And of course, that's
preposterous. And it doesn't take any input from anyone else for them
to stop doing it. All they have to do is change that assumption to
sRGB.
Of course there are a whole range of other issues regarding color
management and the internet, and they would require getting multiple
players onboard, but the simple assumption that someone, anyone,
anywhere created web content using the viewer's monitor profile as a
color space just makes no sense. And Apple could junk it in the next
revision of Safari--if they were to choose to do so.
(Otherwise to Chris, my personal thanks for all your information and
digging on the whole print path issue.)
Mike Adams Correct Color
Exactly
It was not a request for a complex color management system, just the
observation that the Safari solution right now does not fit the world
wide web content. The last is not 50% designed on Macs and if it was it
should follow the general recommendation to use sRGB tagged images. With
iPads around, their display gamut is not that different from sRGB and
that should tell something about the web content in the future. No plans
for CM on iGadgets I heard from Apple. Interesting to read here that
Flash should also fit into that optimal CM system if it ever becomes a
full web color management system. I do not think Apple would waste time
on that adaption. The majority of Apple products today do not have color
management, 75% of the Apple revenue is not related to products that
have CM and that possibly unintended shift from CM to non-CM products is
continuing. Waiting for an optimal solution is one thing, correcting the
most obvious inconsistencies is more urgent. All the sophisticated CM
features could be done later on and are not harmed with more uniformity
in applications and workflows right now.
Returning to the target print issues etc. A similar simple solution,
like it was in the past and still is with several applications on
Windows: a CM-off route from image to print.
--
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst
Try: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
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