Hi Darin,

> On Jul 1, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> WebKit has a CSS property named color-correction. It’s still prefixed, so 
> some would call it -webkit-color-correction and I don’t think it’s yet been 
> proposed as a CSS standard.
> 
> Apple engineers added this a while back so that WebKit could continue 
> interpret webpage and image colors as device native color space for 
> performance and to match content from legacy plug-ins. The property allowed 
> some web content to specify sRGB to get predictable results when correctness 
> mattered more than performance.
> 
> If I’m not mistaken, this optimization is no longer effective on either of 
> the Apple platforms. I’m pretty sure we always do the color correction. I 
> suspect no one needs this feature.

Do you mean that WebKit uses sRGB by default now? I thought the default would 
still be DeviceRGB.

Greetings,
Dirk

> 
> I suggest we remove the property.
> 
> Does anyone know a good reason not to remove it? I won’t necessarily land the 
> code to remove it right away, but I’d like to get agreement on this now so I 
> can do that later.
> 
> — Darin
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