Sunday, March 02, 2008

Safari, Here we come

I often like to boast my hind off about Firefox and it's amazing qualities in rendering Standards with a gecko based backend. But I was working in Illustrator and exporting images when I noticed that the colour was off, way off in my lovely browser. When I save an image to the web Illustrator asks me if I would like to embed my colour profile settings into a jpeg. If I do then other programs can read this and use the same colour profile. But it turns out the colour profile settings weren't being adhered to in Firefox, and thinking it was just a browser issue I continued on my way trying to oversaturate the image in illustrator to match the desaturation that would happen when exporting. A lenghty process I assure you.

I then accidently viewed it in Safari.. and. The colours were fabulous. I investigated, and, it appears this was a nice goody that was added back in 2007.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-19-safari-colors_N.htm

It's interesting that in the article it mentions Firefox 3 will have these nice features. Yet, I'm using Firefox 3 beta 4 and.. it doesn't.. .. but not according to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16769

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