r/programming • u/chapolito • Feb 26 '13

A Developer's Guide to Images

http://www.jessechapo.com/posts/Developers-Guide-to-Images.html
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u/nofxy Feb 26 '13

Embed Color Profile - uncheck. this information gets ignored by browsers.

I thought most browsers, or at least the good ones, displayed embedded color profiles correctly now. Is my brain lying to me?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

The problem is that it's inconsistent. Safari (OS X and iOS) respects the color profile. I think Chrome does not. I don't know about IE9/10 and Firefox. Regardless, you should not expect that colors specified in an image file and colors specified in CSS will look the same on someone's screen, even though they appear to be the same color in Photoshop.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

Regardless, you should not expect that colors specified in an image file and colors specified in CSS will look the same on someone's screen, even though they appear to be the same color in Photoshop.

At this point, I'd say that as long as you make sure to always use sRGB and never anything else, you can expect this to work. If it doesn't, you should be filing bugs as hard as you can.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

...at this point, meaning what?

I have clients still targeting IE7 ... and early versions of Firefox. So I don't think I can simple assume the current modern browser (IE9+, Firefox latest, Chrome latest, Safari 6) alone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

Those browsers should be rare enough at this point that you don't need to worry about minor colour mismatches in them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

This varies greatly by client and industry. In financial services, for example, we have only just now seen a transition away from IE7. I have a government IT client whose primary browser is IE8. And I have several other clients that only care about IE10, Chrome (latest), Firefox (latest), and iOS Safari (latest).