- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:11:01 -0800
- To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote: > Further to that, the requirements for the "Designed for Microsoft Windows" > logo program have been upped to include mandatory ICC profiling for large > monitors and for printers, with recommended profiling for flatscreen monitors. > Also the ICM 2.0 color management system that will ship with Windows 97 has > support for sRGB built in. The description of the Win 97 CMS sounds good. Being able to easily set and switch multiple profiles at the opsys level would be a boon. (Note that the spec says mandatory profiling for all desktop CRTs and recommended profiling for flat panel devices.) Now, if only display board mfgrs would move to 'deprecate' indexed color and promote 24-bit as a standard. You can't have good web color if you're limited to a 216-color fixed palette or dithered color. At the very least the UA makers need to do adaptive or settable palettes. Of course this presents problems with backward compatibility, since optimized images could look terrible on browsers limited to the NS-216 color set. But perhaps with a special OBJECT type an author could specify optimized images for those browsers that understand the type but fall back to standard NS-216 images for those that don't. David Perrell
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