Colour profile

bwana said:
an interesting test . . http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter
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OK, so I was trying to explain this to some friends who use windows, using one of my pictures that looked particularly bad in FF2, and they kept saying "I don't see a difference!" Finally installed it in a VMware image and compared, and saw it for myself - Safari, IE6, FF2 and Opera all display it the same But the above link doesn't work in any of them except Safari. I tried the same thing in all the Linux browsers - looks the same everywhere. :confused:

Then I read somewhere else that sRGB is part of the web/html standard, all browsers are supposed to support it.

So I guess the OSX build for FireFox 2.x simply doesn't even support sRGB like it should. Works fine in FF3 though.
 
koffiejunkie said:
So I guess the OSX build for FireFox 2.x simply doesn't even support sRGB like it should. Works fine in FF3 though.
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Much like Firefox 2 for Osx the Windows browsers are not respecting the colour profiles - thats why they looked the same.
 
bwana said:
Much like Firefox 2 for Osx the Windows browsers are not respecting the colour profiles - thats why they looked the same.
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That would mean that Safari for Windows also doesn't respect the profile.

The reason why I think they all do, aside from having read that sRGB *is* the web standard (I have yet to verify this), is that the particular image I use look really bad in FF on the Mac, all washed out, but didn't look the same in any of the browsers under either windows or linux. And it looked the same as Safari.

Of course, the link you posted tests more than just sRGB.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That would mean that Safari for Windows also doesn't respect the profile.

The reason why I think they all do, aside from having read that sRGB *is* the web standard (I have yet to verify this), is that the particular image I use look really bad in FF on the Mac, all washed out, but didn't look the same in any of the browsers under either windows or linux. And it looked the same as Safari.

Of course, the link you posted tests more than just sRGB.
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You'll find a list of browsers/platforms as well as various tests here - http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html - with the exception of Safari 3 and perhaps FF3 no windows browsers seem to respect embedded ICC profiles.

This site's opinion is that
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.
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sRGB might be 'the standard' but we know how much Microsoft respects standards ;)
 
bwana said:
This site's opinion is that sRGB might be 'the standard' but we know how much Microsoft respects standards ;)
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That still doesn't explain why it doesn't look different between the browsers in Windows. Safari under windows displays that test page correctly, the other's dont. Yet, with an image in sRGB I hardly see a difference, where with the same image under OSX I see a huge difference?

I'll try to make some screenshots tonight to demonstrate what I'm on about.
 
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