I've read the article and tried to divine what was meant in the
statement "The Macintosh browsers Safari and Internet Explorer can,
but only under unusual circumstances not seen in everyday browsing."
The article does not state what is meant by that or what 'unusual
circumstances' are being referred to. In that, at least, they are
either being facetious or are simply downright wrong.
Mac OS X uses ColorSync to color calibrate every window drawn with
the system routines. Safari, Preview, most all Mac OS X applications
that render JPEGs to the screen use these system routines. Those that
don't, like Photoshop, are generally sophisticated enough to do the
right thing anyway. If a JPEG file, whether from web or local hard
drive, has an embedded profile it is honored in Safari. (It's honored
in Internet Explorer too, but only if you turn on ColorSync profile
matching.)
In extensive testing with one of my good buddies from another list,
we found that embedding an sRGB profile in an sRGB rendered image
helped consistent color rendering even on the brain-dead-with-respect-
to-color-management Windows browsers, and certainly helped if not
solved the issues of rendering such photos between Mac OS X and
Windows platforms, despite the gamma correction standards
differences. It's a damn good idea to embed a color profile if you
want to have any hope of consistent color rendering on viewers
screens, and is certainly worth the extra download time for the 1K
byte or so of profile data.
Godfrey
On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:56 PM, George Sinos wrote:
Here's a short quote from the page linked below:
"The box of crayons you're given for displaying photos on the web is
called sRGB.
There are other color spaces, such as Adobe RGB (1998), but no
Windows-based browser can display them correctly. The Macintosh
browsers Safari and Internet Explorer can, but only under unusual
circumstances not seen in everyday browsing."
The full story is at:
<http://www.smugmug.com/help/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-1998>
See you later, gs
<http://georgesphotos.net>
On 4/21/06, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as web images is concerned, the browser also has to support
colour management. I only know of two that do (they use ColorSync).
One of those was discontinued long ago.
Which is the currently available one? I'm much interested.
