- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2096 13:26:07 -0800
- To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote: > A guess - you don't use a Mac or an SGI or a NeXT to browse with. Right. > Another guess - the doument authors did. And it wasn't illegible to > them. The difference being gamma correction, ignoring which causes > errors of several hundred percent - especially for dark colors. May be. Or attempted subtlety by PC users with CRT brightness cranked to maximum. > Note that the CSS1 specification defines what a color means, in terms of > measurable objective color specifications, and also that the minimum that > implementors must do to display these tightly specified colors is to > implement reasonable gamma correction. > > So hopefully, you won't need to switch off stylesheets just because what > looked dark and moody (but legible) on a Mac became very dark and > unreadable on your system. How does sRGB help without an opsys-level CMS or sRGB-compliant display? Is there any progress in getting display hardware mfgr's to buy into this? David Perrell
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