On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:40:05AM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > Alan Amaya wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Yossi Kreinin > > > >The color issue is likely due to color correction / gamut mapping. Any > >recent non-professional wide-gamut monitor will soon leave you wishing > >it wasn't. What is #44ffaa after all, but some hex digits which never > >look the same. A photograph though, that should look real. > > > > But why doesn't #44ffaa display *the same* in the page background and > the embedded PNG? I don't really notice small differences in the signal, > but a non-zero derivative where there should be a zero derivative kinda > sticks out. Also, why do other browsers work just fine?
Aha. I thought I'd read about this, and it seems I remembered it correctly PNG gamma correction. Top google link is http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ and explains it how I remembered it. There seem to be several reasonable links further down. It's hateful. Nicholas Clark PS Sort of off topic, but thanks, or maybe no thanks, for the C++ FQA I had no idea how many more reasons there were to hate C++ than the ones I'd learned first hand.
