- From: <phoyt@philiphoyt.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> 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. I did say most users, not clothing retailers. I'm not surprised that some people think gamma correction is an important feature. At least it makes it more useful as a format for print design I suppose. > > 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. > Fair enough. I look forward to the day when 90% of users have browsers that get this right.
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