> > I don't know about ICC enought to comment. But HTML do not allow > > extension on the spec, it's just that some main stream web browsers have > > extension to the spec, meaning some websites use them, meaning other web > > browsers have to cope finding information for the extension, while 99% of > > what is in the extension could have been done with a full implementation > > of the spec. TIFF and OpenEXR, I can't count people asking us to support > > one of this undocumented extension. > > In text formats, if no other meachanism is provided, often new things > start to appear in comments ;-) yeah :) or tags are added anyway. But I am offering a mechanism, comes here to ask for the change !
> For instance the ICC profile in Tiff (v6.0 1992) is defined in the ICC > spec (1995?) not vice versa. Tiff was easy enough extensible to do such > things, Exif, geo referencing ... Ok, Adobe registers new TIFF tags on > request. But this makes no new standard. Sure and they don't require documentation, so half of those tags are only used by a few applications. > Blender with its layer and compositing stack, exhibited in the OpenEXR > images is nowhere described in the OpenEXR spec. Even though it is > possible with this format. Yes and now people are asking for Krita to support multilayer OpenEXR and I have a hard time finding information. While with a central place with all the information it's much easier ;) And from what I have heard, the multi layer things is supposed to move into the spec. I could also add as an example, Exif, which includes a field where manufacturer are allowed to insert whatever data they want, and some of them are inserting metadata in that field which could be described in the spec. I do think the create group is a reasonnable group so that if someone wants something, I think it will be easily added. -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
