[whatwg] Colour correction (was: Canvas ImageData comments)

L. David Baron dbaron at dbaron.org
Sun Jan 20 10:29:22 PST 2008


On Sunday 2008-01-20 09:58 -0800, Darin Adler wrote:
> The proposal from color experts here at Apple is to interpret untagged 
> colors in the sRGB color space. This is what's done with most other 
> untagged color in Mac OS X.

For what it's worth, this is exactly what CSS requires for colors
specifies for colors specified in CSS:

  # All RGB colors are specified in the sRGB color space (see
  # [SRGB]).
    -- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#color-units

(And that's not new; the sentence goes back all the way to
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-css1-960726.html#color-units .)

-David

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