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Re: [csswg-drafts] [CSS-COLOR-4] Security/Privacy: Incognito mode (#5553)

From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:30:53 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-700670403-1601382652-sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Tab is correct, system colors are likely to resolve to sRGB colors set by the browser or OS (or, rarely, by the user).

> Now, when the UA goes to display the webpage, if for any reason it uses a cached version of the ICC profile, the page being displayed could technically detect the actual displayed color for an element and map that color to a previous visitor.

How would you go about doing that, in script? The computed value, read back from the CSS OM, would be `dark-skin` in both cases.



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