{"id":12564,"date":"2007-11-22T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T09:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/firefox-3-to-enable-better-color-online.html"},"modified":"2007-11-22T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T09:24:25","slug":"firefox_3_to_enable_better_color_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/22\/firefox_3_to_enable_better_color_online\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3 to enable better color online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little reason to give thanks this year: the forthcoming Firefox 3.0 (now in beta) will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13580_3-9820775-39.html\">enable color-managed browsing<\/a>.&#160; That is, the browser will read color profile information saved in images, take your monitor&#8217;s particular characteristics into account, and adjust the pixels on the fly to give them the proper appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The look of images differs between managed and unmanaged applications (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/safari_vs_ff.jpg\">screenshot<\/a> of the same image in Safari vs. Firefox 2), so FF getting on board with color management is great news for designers &amp; photographers who value consistency.&#160; For more background on why this is an important advance for the Web, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/06\/safari_brings_c.html\">notes on the color-managed Safari coming to Windows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if we can get Internet Explorer &amp; the Flash Player on board, it&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlcyberfamily.org\/special\/happydance.htm\">Snoopy Happy Dance<\/a> time for everyone. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Happy Turkey Day,  <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/10\/lucha_loco.html\">El Tryptophan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little reason to give thanks this year: the forthcoming Firefox 3.0 (now in beta) will enable color-managed browsing.&#160; That is, the browser will read color profile information saved in images, take your monitor&#8217;s particular characteristics into account, and adjust the pixels on the fly to give them the proper appearance. The look of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}