On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:29 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
Web images need to be in a colour space. Same for images being
printed at a
photo lab, the equipment needs colour information.
Unfortunately most browsers (and non for the Windows platform that
I'm aware of
) are not colour space aware, however the defacto standard for web
images seems
now to be sRGB. This means that images for display on the web ought
to conform
to the sRGB CS however it generally makes little difference if the
colour space
is embedded or not. ...
I have to disagree on that last point. I did extensive testing with
several other folks participating on the Picture A Week mailing list
last year ... Testing with several browsers on both Windows XP and
Mac OS X, color rendering of an sRGB image was much more consistent
with an embedded sRGB profile, regardless of whether the browsers
themselves honored profiles.
(On Mac OS X, both the Safari and Internet Explorer browsers honor
profiles. Safari in particular does a very high quality job of
rendering JPEG images accurately.)
Godfrey
