Safari's VERY annoying color management - colour management
With Firefox now being able to display CSS AND honour image ICC profiles, isn't it time Safari at least gave some configuration options in this respect?
For those of us with wide gamut monitors, seeing red literally is becoming a headache!
Firefox treats CSS as through the colours were in the sRGB environment. It also treats untagged images as sRGB, and honours sRGB and other profiles embedded in images... This is a GOOD thing, because untagged colour values in images, match CSS background colours - important for web work.
Safari on the other hand, treats CSS and untagged images as the monitor profile, making them often appear very over saturated. Sure it honours sRGB and other ICC profiles in bitmaps, but what use is that when it doesn't also treat CSS elements to the web standard sRGB colourspace?
If you want a page to display with consistent colour between bitmaps and CSS backgrounds in Safari, then you have no option but to use untagged images in all of your page layouts - leaving a VERY garish result for those with wide gamut monitors.
It would make FAR more sense if apple made safari treat CSS and untagged images as sRGB, instead of leaving them open to the excesses of the monitor profile.
To show the problem I have a little page http://www.sant-media.co.uk/color
Lookat this in safari and you will see the mismatch between the CSS red background and the 100% red sRGB tagged image in the middle.
Message was edited by: stevesant
For those of us with wide gamut monitors, seeing red literally is becoming a headache!
Firefox treats CSS as through the colours were in the sRGB environment. It also treats untagged images as sRGB, and honours sRGB and other profiles embedded in images... This is a GOOD thing, because untagged colour values in images, match CSS background colours - important for web work.
Safari on the other hand, treats CSS and untagged images as the monitor profile, making them often appear very over saturated. Sure it honours sRGB and other ICC profiles in bitmaps, but what use is that when it doesn't also treat CSS elements to the web standard sRGB colourspace?
If you want a page to display with consistent colour between bitmaps and CSS backgrounds in Safari, then you have no option but to use untagged images in all of your page layouts - leaving a VERY garish result for those with wide gamut monitors.
It would make FAR more sense if apple made safari treat CSS and untagged images as sRGB, instead of leaving them open to the excesses of the monitor profile.
To show the problem I have a little page http://www.sant-media.co.uk/color
Lookat this in safari and you will see the mismatch between the CSS red background and the 100% red sRGB tagged image in the middle.
Message was edited by: stevesant
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