On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Yossi Kreinin <yossi.krei...@mobileye.com>wrote:
> 3. And for a dessert: suppose you use a background color #44ffaa, or any > other color for that matter, on your web page. You take a screen shot of > what your browser displays and embed a region from that screen shot into the > web page - for example, to display an e-mail address. In most graphical > browsers, the result will look just like the surrounding text. However, in > one particular browser the color of the image will be slightly but > noticeably different from the page background color. I fail to see how that > can happen unless there's code inside the browser written specifically to > make this not work. > > Guess the brand name of that browser, given the hint that the number of its > version that I tested is 8. > > Bon Appétit! > > The color issue is likely due to color correction / gamut mapping. Any recent non-professional wide-gamut monitor will soon leave you wishing it wasn't. What is #44ffaa after all, but some hex digits which never look the same. A photograph though, that should look real. PS: Maybe if your web page was a PDF it would look exactly right.
