Al Rider wrote: > I read thru these ramblings and don't still don't know why, in theory, > the color space should be rendered with any modification at all. > > Rendering of html and css colors, yes that requires gamma consider, etc. > However, the answer is simple [unfortunately] just replicate IE. 90% > of the browsers are IE, so designers pick colors that look good with > IE; period. > > As I understand it, PNG is a compression algorithm. Therefore, the > decompression algorithm should repoduce the orginal, without any > modification.
I would be surprised(but I don't know for sure) if PNG compression was not lousy. I don't know how PNG works, but if it is lousy(like video compression as opposed to lossless compression like zip or bz2) than it would be _impossible_ for a decompression algorithm to reproduce the original without modification.
