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| 09-12-06 / 01:27 : Why the site looks bad on Windows :) (cjed) |
| Here is a short explanation about the site rendering being so different on Windows (darker, saturated colors) - without mentioning bugs in positioning and dashed lines (bad conformance with standards in IE - ok in Firefox), and bad rendering of images (bad graphic engine on Windows). You have to know that Microsoft uses a 2.2 gamma value (TV standard) where Apple choosed 1.8 (standard for printers, as it was targeted for prepress), resulting in brighter colors on mac for the same colors values. A solution could be to replace the images with pictures in PNG format (can include the source plaform gamma value to proceed to compensation when displayed on a target platform using a different gamma value). The GIF and JPEG formats do not convey this information. However Windows didn't manage well PNGs. For backgrounds we should be able to detect the runtime platform and apply an adaptive factor (algorithm to determine)... Formula to adapt RGB values from Windows to another gamma (Annexe D, we want the opposite) The sRGB color space Article upon sRGB |
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