FAO .. those who don't know already..

Brian

I've only just discovered that images in Firefox and Safari are rendered differently. Firefox renders some crap way and Safari renders with the attached image profile. This gives you results like this:



Source image

Firefox definitely renders the image with a duller, grey tone.. possibly more realistic but lacks the warmth of the correct image profile.

Firefox users, fret not! The Color Management add-on for Firefox provides correct profile rendering. Apparently it slows down Firefox a little but I haven't noticed.

Hope this helps.. anyone..

Alun

Doesn't FF3 support color profiles natively (as opposed to FF2 which needed the above add-on)? Just turn it on in about:config and select the color profile for your monitor as well. And FF doesn't really do it "some crap way" by default, it just assumes an sRGB profile which is the default for web use.

DaireQuinlan

Baza210 wrote: »

Firefox users, fret not! The Color Management add-on for Firefox provides correct profile rendering. Apparently it slows down Firefox a little but I haven't noticed.

Yeah this has been a problem since forever. The problem with installing a client side plugin on your machine of course is that it'll just hide the problem, all your deliciously coloured pictures with their embedded profiles will still just get an sRGB profile when rendered anywhere else.

It -is- supported in FF3 but as Alun obliquely implies, is turned off by default, so most users (who don't have a clue about this stuff) will remain colour management-less* . So its best to keep on converting to sRGB for web use for the time being.

*That said, MOST users are using IE, and hopefully by this stage IE7 which (afaik) does colour management correctly.

AnimalRights

Alun wrote: »

Doesn't FF3 support color profiles natively (as opposed to FF2 which needed the above add-on)? Just turn it on in about:config and select the color profile for your monitor as well. And FF doesn't really do it "some crap way" by default, it just assumes an sRGB profile which is the default for web use.

Yep this is correct.
Although I have it switched to off as I found it too dark.

Brian

Alun wrote: »

Doesn't FF3 support color profiles natively (as opposed to FF2 which needed the above add-on)? Just turn it on in about:config and select the color profile for your monitor as well. And FF doesn't really do it "some crap way" by default, it just assumes an sRGB profile which is the default for web use.

Yes, it supports it through about:config, the addon is just a GUI front end for changing it, I think. FF's rendering is crap if it's wrong, neh?

Alun

AnimalRights wrote: »

Yep this is correct.
Although I have it switched to off as I found it too dark.

Did you add the name of your monitor's colour profile in gfx.color_management.display_profile as well?

Alun

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

*That said, MOST users are using IE, and hopefully by this stage IE7 which (afaik) does colour management correctly.

Less than half, if this is to be believed ...

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

DaireQuinlan

Alun wrote: »

Less than half, if this is to be believed ...

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

urgh, those w3schools statistics are skewed dramatically toward firefox. The reality no-one *really* knows, but something like 80% or more of the market uses some variant of IE. Given the fast rate of PC turnover on the consumer market and the age of IE7 at this stage its probably safe to assume that the majority of the tech-agnostic consumer market is using IE7

Anouilh

Many thanks for letting us know about this.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/21/color-management-twe.html