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Re: Agenda, TPAC 2019 ColorWeb CG Meeting.

From: Phil Green <green@colourspace.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:23:04 +0000
To: "public-colorweb@w3.org" <public-colorweb@w3.org>
Message-ID: <69df7b57-4a64-db3a-40fb-9b72a241dbe1@colourspace.demon.co.uk>
PNG does support ICC profiles but currently references a >20-year-old v2 
specification. A file format for images on the web should ideally 
support both v2 and v4, and possibly iccMAX for more advanced applications.

Phil

On 16/09/2019 11:55, Simon Thompson-NM wrote:
> * Image formats for HDR
>
> Still images, such as stills from a movie or HDR photography, need to be displayed on the Web. Ideally, W3C would not develop a new format but use an existing, open, widely implementable one.
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> [>>] Indeed.  We would like to see a standardised graphics format.  PNG with an ICC profile could be a starting point. Does industry need a floating point format to allow for heavy editing which could cause banding in a integer-based system?
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> Simon Thompson
> Senior R&D Engineer
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> BBC Research & Development
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