- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 18:17:35 +0300
- To: "public-colorweb@w3.org" <public-colorweb@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <69a7e18b-e25a-544c-6dd2-3d884424dfd4@w3.org>
Learned people, Currently, all W3C specifications (bar one, which is being fixed [1]) refer to the IEC definition of sRGB as authoritative. [2] Multimedia systems and equipment - Colour measurement and management - Part 2-1: Colour management - Default RGB colour space - sRGB <https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/6169>. However, the link goes to the IEC web store[3], where one can pay real money for a copy. In consequence, many people don't have a copy (including myself, hence this mail). I recently learned [4] (and sorry, I didn't know this before) that sRGB is also defined by the ITU, on p.14 of: Television colorimetry elements. Report ITU-R BT.2380-2 (10/2018) https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/rep/R-REP-BT.2380-2-2018-PDF-E.pdf and this specification has the merit of being freely available to download. I see that the ITU report does reference IEC 61966-2-1 so I presume that the chromaticity coordinates, EOTF and OETF are copied correctly from there. I notice that the EOTF breakpoint is specified to more significant figures, 0.40449936 rather than 0.04045 which I have seen elsewhere. I would have greater peace of mind, before submitting a pull request on the spec database to point to the freely available specification, if someone who has read /both /specifications could confirm for me that the definitions are identical? [1] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines refers to an obsolete 4th working draft of the IEC specification, which still has the erroneous rounded-off coefficient that led to a discontinuity in the transfer function. Although the impact on 8bit per component systems is invisible, I now have agreement to fix that https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/360#issuecomment-453741912 and following [2] https://www.specref.org/?q=srgb [3] https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/6169 [4] https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/360#issuecomment-487476773 -- Chris Lilley @svgeesus Technical Director @ W3C W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media
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