Comments on: Firefox Colour Management

By: Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:53:00 +0000

All there is to know about this issue:

http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/

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By: Collusion Intrusion » Blog Archive » No Space for Color

Collusion Intrusion » Blog Archive » No Space for Color — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:29:53 +0000

[...] quite make it to the the hex color of the rest of the footer. A quick Google and I found my solution. It appears that Safari, the only browser affected, honors color profiles. The way I understand it [...]

By: Proofing

Proofing — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:10:23 +0000

The proof is out there

What is out there is full color printing. It has been around for some years now. Look around you and you will see the proof of its existence. If you are not yet convinced, maybe you can try comparing the kind of prints people had before with what is pr…

By: Trevor Carpenter

Trevor Carpenter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:26:07 +0000

Firefox 3 will fix this…

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/08/color-management-support-added-to-firefox-3/

By: Sassomoso

Sassomoso — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:00:54 +0000

As of now, Safari is the only browser that supports color profiles and therefore displays correctly what you see in Photoshop, iPhoto/Aperture, etc. All other browsers are “dumb” and don’t know what color profiles are and will just ignore them. There’s a bit light at the end of the tunnel when FireFox 3.0 will be released, as it finally supports color profiles. IE? Well, maybe version 8 or 9 if you’re lucky… not to mention that Microsoft finally got color profile handling done at OS level with Windows Vista (was implemented by Apple in the classic Mac OS decades ago).

The fact that not always the good things succeed with the majority, we’re now looking at a web that’s largely dominated by “dumb” browsers that can’t handle color right. As a pain it is to say this but yes, you do have to adjust your monitor to the PC-Gamma and you have to adjust and export your images to sRGB and make them look good in a browser that CAN’T handle color profiles (

For an explanation of why things are the way they are, read Apple’s own support document (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302827) that further references a photographer’s tutorial of how to calibrate and export for the web (http://www.gballard.net/psd/srgbforwww.html).

I hope this helps, as heartbreaking this may be… (