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3 May 2024 08:27:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: N (Captain Nemo) revisited  
From: Kenneth
Date: 25 Mar 2018 18:50:01
Message: <web.5ab82726b126f8c9a47873e10@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2018 um 11:52 schrieb Ive:
>
> > And a general note to everybody who's posting images to theses
> > newsgroups: please make sure your JPEG image contains a ICC profile.
> > Since about 2 months Firefox and Thunderbird have full color management
> > enabled by default. Chrome and Opera do the same since quite a while,
> [...]
>
> ...the W3C officially recommends sRGB for all web content, so that's what
> browsers should default to if an ICC profile is not embedded.
>
> Also, a lot of images posted here are rendered with POV-Ray, which
> currently does not embed an ICC profile. So to comply with your request,
> each and every image would have to be post-processed before posting,
> which I consider unreasonable.
> [...]

I'm coming late to this conversation; sorry.

This surprising situation looks like a very big 'can of worms' that needs
further discussion, maybe in a separate newsgroup thread. It goes to the heart
of what we can expect our images to look like on other computers/monitors.


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