[Openicc] Questions about color pickers and graphics libraries under LINUX

[Hal V. Engel]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 09:19:42 Tim Rowley wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 10:22 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > I can optionally turn it on in FireFox 3 and then magic
> > > happens.
> >
> > it = color management
> >
> > FF then assumes sRGB for untagged images, html and css content; grabs
> > the display profile from the OS and has ColorSync do display
> > compensation.
>
> Firefox uses lcms to do the color correction for all platforms (rather
> than ColorSync on OS-X, for example).  Due to this, its color
> corrected results may be different from other applications.

But these differences are likely very small compared to differences between 
individual displays and to a greater extent the differences between consummer 
quality and high end wide gamut displays.

Hal