Firefox 3.5 Color Profiles Not That Great
I know, I know, color profiles are great for photographers, but here’s a quick rant: although colors are richer and prettier, when users mess around with the default controls in their browser and they enable color profiles, backgrounds and images that designers have color-matched to fit in are suddenly mismatched.
It’s easy to tell where a background image picks up and starts off suddenly. This is a huge problem, because a lot of people are going to want to mess around with their settings and enable color profiles. Designers will now need to save to PNGs and forfeit IE6 support (which wasn’t that important to begin with, but still).
Instead of enabling it for everything, each photograph should have a specific setting saying “yes” or “no”, and browsers should obey it. It makes sense that the developers for Firefox have turned it off on default.