- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:18:13 +0200
- To: phoyt@philiphoyt.com
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-style@w3.org
On Friday, July 23, 2004, 9:05:32 PM, phoyt wrote: >> >> On Friday, July 23, 2004, 7:04:12 PM, Henri wrote: >> >> HS> On Jul 23, 2004, at 00:17, Chris Lilley wrote: >> >>>> They look entirely different on Mac and PC platforms, to take an >>>> example. >> >> HS> That depends on the display settings. >> >> Which PNG images can contain and thus display correctly while GIFs >> cannot. >> ppc> To be a bit more precise, this behaviour of PNG feels like a bug to most ppc> users. You should talk to some online clothing retailers. Its a significant barrier to trade; the amount of returns due to the color not being anywhere near what ewas on screen is significant. ppc> The solution is to turn off gamma correction in your PNGs, ppc> something easily done in Macromedia Fireworks and the GIMP but to my ppc> knowledge impossible in Photoshop. That isn't a solution, its a workaround. The solution is to implement CSS1 correctly, at which point the PNGs and the CSS colors will match correctly *and* display consistently. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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