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Re:Ask HN: Why do images look different in Firefox and Chrome? by shocks on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:02PM (#3544719)
Wow thanks for this, so Chrome is not colour managed? That seems a shame, since it virtually cuts out all photographers as users...
Re:Ask HN: Why do images look different in Firefox and Chrome? by wmf on Thursday February 02, 2012 @06:53PM (#3545134)
Experts say (and I agree) that all images posted to the Web should be sRGB with no ICC profile (the profile is not needed since sRGB is the default on more or less all systems); AFAIK such images should appear the same in different browsers. If you post an image using a low-dynamic-range format (e.g. JPEG) with a non-default colorspace (e.g. AdobeRGB), it will either be displayed wrong (in non-color-managed browsers) or it will lose color accuracy (possibly introducing banding) when the browser converts it to sRGB.
Re:Ask HN: Why do images look different in Firefox and Chrome? by dholowiski on Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:47PM (#3545645)
That's all nice and geeky, but those images don't look as good in Chrome as they do in Firefox.
Re:Ask HN: Why do images look different in Firefox and Chrome? by wmf on Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:51PM (#3545655)
My point is that those images were probably converted wrong, so of course they look bad.