Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] EyeDropper API (#587)

I came across a [Chrome extension using the EyeDropper API](https://www.windowscentral.com/eye-dropper-extension-lets-you-pick-color-anywhere-your-pcs-screen) and tried it out. I immediately noticed that on my Wide Color Gamut screen, the results were being measured in device coordinates, but reported back as sRGB hex thus giving the wrong color.

For example, displaying a patch of #009900 the eyedropper reported #56981C which is clearly incorrect. However, using a browser that does not do color management on CSS (Firefox, which simply throws whatever RGB data at the screen) displaying #56981C gives the exact same color, visually, as displaying #009900 does in Chrome, Edge etc which do handle sRGB values in CSS correctly.

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