On Apr 21, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Godders didn't say accurate rendering, just consistent. Maybe he can
elaborate further.
Exactly.
He worked on a Windows system, I worked on Mac OS X, and we both
applied the same colorimeter to several reference images in 8
different browsers on each. I did the statistics on them. We then
moved to a different pair of monitors and did it again.
The results were surprising, and quite conclusive. Consistency of
rendering was always enhanced when an ICC profile was embedded. For a
measly couple of worth of data, particularly when some folks want to
post 200Kbyte image files for people to browse, I don't understand
the big deal about embedding them. If they're truly ignored by all
but the very few applications, why not? It doesn't hurt anything and
even at 28.8Kbps dialup speeds would only add 2-3 seconds per image
to download. Crap that isn't color management sensitive, like all the
stupid dancing whirlygigs and other nonsense that people embellish
their sites with, don't have to worry about it. (I often turn the
browser display of graphics off when I see that crap anyway.)
G
