Graeme, <div><br></div><div> Concerning the point of view, I feel that much of the current practice of color management is bound to the use of the screen as a preview device for an expensive print. </div><div><br></div><div> Nowadays, I believe there is a universe of consumers who employ the display directly to view images and graphics uploaded to portable devices and the web by other consumers - and some strongly simplified color management could hugely improve the consistency of this web experience. The same goes for TVs and home projectors.</div> <div><br></div><div> If I may be allowed an analogy, when I was writing CAD programs for chips 30 years ago, I was using expensive and precise graphic tablets; but consumers came along and popularised the imprecise but yet very useful computer mouse.</div> <div><br></div><div>Edmund</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Graeme Gill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graeme@argyllcms.com">graeme@argyllcms.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">edmund ronald wrote:<br> > I have two quotes from Alan Kay for you, namely:<br> <br> </div>Edmund, I'm glad you find these quotes informative. I'm<br> bemused as to why you think I would find much novelty in them.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> Graeme Gill.<br> _______________________________________________<br> openicc mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:openicc@lists.freedesktop.org">openicc@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>