Re:Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Di...
by formerly_proven on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:03AM
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Firefox (and I think Chrome as well) does color management for images, and I think they even do it correctly these days (i.e. no tag = assume sRGB), which they did not for some time (out of the box).
FWIW I think the Windows approach to color management has proven wrong and off-base for today's world. It stems from the 90s where color management was seen as something only "pro" applications would ever need to do, so it was okay to require a lot of effort from those few application developers to implement color management in their apps. The MacOS approach where applications tag their surfaces with one of a few standard color spaces and the system does the rest is less powerful in theory but, on the other hand, means that things will actually work. Plus, I think MacOS has escape hatches so that apps can do their own color management based on output device ICC profiles if they really want to.
FWIW I think the Windows approach to color management has proven wrong and off-base for today's world. It stems from the 90s where color management was seen as something only "pro" applications would ever need to do, so it was okay to require a lot of effort from those few application developers to implement color management in their apps. The MacOS approach where applications tag their surfaces with one of a few standard color spaces and the system does the rest is less powerful in theory but, on the other hand, means that things will actually work. Plus, I think MacOS has escape hatches so that apps can do their own color management based on output device ICC profiles if they really want to.