XICC in Mozilla
I just learnt via The Daily Chump that Firefox 3 should have support for ICC profile handling when displaying images. The initial patch was to use ColorSync which won't work on Linux, but the recent patches by Tim Rowley also use the _ICC_PROFILE from my ICC Profiles In X specification when running on Linux. Excellent news, I hope this gets integrated soon.
Speaking of which, now that more applications are using this property, I should get around to extending the Screen Resolution setting in GNOME to include a colour profile selector...
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Posted by Marius Gedminas at Thu Mar 15 12:14:58 2007:
Posted by Ross at Thu Mar 15 13:20:31 2007:
Some monitors will provide an ICC profile in their EDID data, but I've yet to see one that actually does.
Posted by harms at Sat Nov 17 14:49:40 2007:
How will Firefox behave if it is displaying an image, which is displayed using the profile, as part of a web page with colours which are set in css or html? It is common practice for designers to put the exact same colours in css/html and in website graphics, and unless I am misunderstanding something fundamental here, wouldn't this result in ugly, unwanted boundaries on websites?
Furthermore, I don't really get why applications need individual support for profiles, wouldn't it be better to have this seemlessly integrated somewhere in X, so that all applications will benefit?
Posted by Ross at Sat Nov 17 15:14:54 2007:
Furthermore, I don't really get why applications need individual support for profiles, wouldn't it be better to have this seemlessly integrated somewhere in X, so that all applications will benefit?
harms: if firefox supported this spec, it should apply the profile to the entire page, images, HTML and CSS, not just images.
And yes, it should be an X thing. You can get part-way by using ArgyllCMS if your video driver supports LUTs, but ideally we need X12 with support for abstract colour spaces.
And yes, it should be an X thing. You can get part-way by using ArgyllCMS if your video driver supports LUTs, but ideally we need X12 with support for abstract colour spaces.
