Colorsync, again
If you're a regular reader, you'll know that one of my pet bugbears is the lack of ColorSync support in Firefox. ColorSync (in the form of ICC profiles) is Apple's technology for ensuring colour fidelity across browsers and media.
If that last paragraph made your eyelids droop, you may leave now. :-)
I'm currently using a great browser which does support ICC profiles (and is generally The Browser that Safari Should Be) called OmniWeb.
But occasionally I hanker for the nice little plugins and stuff that come with Firefox, so I go off on little research expeditions to find out a bit more about ICC support in browsers.
It turns out that lack of ICC support in Mozilla has been a known issue for quite a while, it was reported as a bug back in 1999. Although reading that thread it sounds like it is being actively looked at.
To give you some idea of how much of a difference it makes, take a look at this page using a few different browsers. If you're using a ICC-compliant browser like Safari (or IE6, I think), it will look normal. If you look at the same page in Firefox, it will look like it was screen printed by Warhol on a bad day.
That's an extreme example, but it makes the point. Colour fidelity is important, not quite important enough that I'd go demonstrate about it yet, but still pretty important.
If that last paragraph made your eyelids droop, you may leave now. :-)
I'm currently using a great browser which does support ICC profiles (and is generally The Browser that Safari Should Be) called OmniWeb.
But occasionally I hanker for the nice little plugins and stuff that come with Firefox, so I go off on little research expeditions to find out a bit more about ICC support in browsers.
It turns out that lack of ICC support in Mozilla has been a known issue for quite a while, it was reported as a bug back in 1999. Although reading that thread it sounds like it is being actively looked at.
To give you some idea of how much of a difference it makes, take a look at this page using a few different browsers. If you're using a ICC-compliant browser like Safari (or IE6, I think), it will look normal. If you look at the same page in Firefox, it will look like it was screen printed by Warhol on a bad day.
That's an extreme example, but it makes the point. Colour fidelity is important, not quite important enough that I'd go demonstrate about it yet, but still pretty important.
Umm... what where you saying about colours N stuff? :-)
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