> On Jul 1, 2015, at 23:36, Dirk Schulze <dschu...@adobe.com> wrote: > > 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.
DeviceRGB became equivalent to sRGB (thus causing WebKit to do color correction as if all colors are tagged as sRGB) on OS X a few releases ago. It no longer means “the same color space as the display”. > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
