Comments on: Safari brings color-managed browsing to Windows

By: resim yukle

resim yukle — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:43:56 +0000

Not sure if you changed your ideas since. jpeg on the web should always be sRGB, anything else is nonsense. As far as I know Safari does not allow one to turn color management off so it makes things more complicated then simpler. For 8 bit images sRGB was the right idea.

By: resim paylas

resim paylas — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:43:36 +0000

i think in firefox3 , the devolopers not make anything for colormanagment.

By: resimler

resimler — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:44:55 +0000

i think in firefox3 , the devolopers not make anything for colormanagment.

By: el-aziz

el-aziz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:03:56 +0000

Thanks Adobe

By: Pierre Jasmin

Pierre Jasmin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:56:33 +0000

By: 清拆

清拆 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:37:42 +0000

Good grief. Anyone got a link to a website (or a good dead-treed resource) that explains all of this so that a moron can understand it? I have never totally understood this whole subject.

By: Yükle

Yükle — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:28:34 +0000

i think in firefox3 , the devolopers not make anything for colormanagment.

By: resim

resim — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:52:50 +0000

The truth is that Windows browsers are as color-clueless as they come. They simply throw the raw RGB numbers at the screen with no interpretation. [This really bugs me, frankly, given that for the last few years Microsoft has made a lot of noise about stepping up to improve the world of color management. That's great: lots of improvments need to be made, and if they light a competitive fire under all of us, so much the better. But in the meantime, why does the IE team fail to make what should be a small tweak that could improve the browsing experience for literally tens of millions of people? --J.]

By: hikaye

hikaye — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:13:36 +0000

Merci du billet…

By: Steve Upton

Steve Upton — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:19:51 +0000

Actually monitors are, to some extent, already auto-calibrating on OS X. When OS X boots, ColorSync grabs the color information of your display through the monitor cable and creates a profile on the fly. This is NOT as good as a true hardward calibration but it is a pretty good step – and most people are not even aware it is happening. Granted this is still only on the Mac, Vista still won’t even load monitor calibration curves, it relies on thrid party utilities to do that…

By: Phil W

Phil W — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:20:33 +0000

If you start relying on embedded profiles you’ll have precisely the problem noted above. Narrowing the scope of the original argument doesn’t help… no one wants people without an Apple browser to see the wrong colours, so I using sRGB is the only way to go for now.
[quote]What does Safari 3 for Windows use as a default profile for an image if it doesn’t find one? On the Mac, Safari 2 and earlier use the monitor profile instead of the W3C standard sRGB.[...] Anybody know what Safari 3 does?[/quote]
That’s almost the right question. Safari 3 for Vista completely ignores the monitor profile… so your untagged image is “wrong”, but so are your tagged ones! Assuming the monitor is calibrated to precisely sRGB is incorrect; but Vista doesn’t just read the profile and correct all colours thrown at the display for some reason. PS does read the monitor profile and so produces correct colour.

By: Jim Bass

Jim Bass — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:12:37 +0000

I am using WinXP. I opened my photo web site in FireFox, IE7 and Safari and there isn’t one bit of difference between them. I do have a calibrated system.
John, regarding your “old days” tale of splitting the difference, that was an odd choice considering that 95% of the market could have seen the images just right if you hadn’t “split the difference.”
Regarding MS caring about anything other than green, Apple has been gouging customers with their prices for years. If they hadn’t been so greedy, they would have won the battle of technologies.

By: Bruce McL

Bruce McL — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:32:29 +0000

What does Safari 3 for Windows use as a default profile for an image if it doesn’t find one? On the Mac, Safari 2 and earlier use the monitor profile instead of the W3C standard sRGB.
IE 5 on the Mac used sRGB as the default, consequently it was the best browser ever for displaying most (untagged, point and shoot) digital photos. Anybody know what Safari 3 does?

By: Pedro Estarque

Pedro Estarque — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:55:10 +0000

John, couldn’t Adobe ship Adobe Gamma along with Flash Player ? Eye balls are not perfect but it is certainly better than nothing.

By: Jerome Dahdah

Jerome Dahdah — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:46:28 +0000

Oh please, no. Talk about opening a can of worms. Until now I've been so glad that this is a topic I don't have to worry about, never envying my fellow print colleagues. *sigh* [The problem has been there, and your designs have been suffering as a result. The difference is that you no longer have as much justification for putting your head in the sand. (As I say, I lived in denial about this stuff for years, but it's not going away, nor should it.) --J.]