Aha! Safari color issue resolved
March 20th, 2007As it turns out, the problem had nothing to do with web-safe color palettes but rather with how Safari renders PNG files. This would explain why Google searches for “safari web colors” didn’t turn up a single helpful site. Searching for “safari png,” however, leads us to plenty of information.
The article The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction” does a good job of explaining what is going on, if you’re interested. As a curious side note: I browsed a few of the blog entries addressing this and saw that Andy Budd had commented on one of them and linked the same article I just did. In case you don’t remember from a few posts back, that’s the guy who wrote the book I’m reading. Small world :-P
I’m just glad I got this figured out. Feels good to solve problems on your own.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I’ve noticed that color stuff seems surprisingly complicated. The human eye sees less colors then our monitors can display, you’d think it wouldn’t be so hard.
But I guess its stuff like monitors that cause the problems. My dad used to have this old monitor and everything was really dark on it. He would also “correct” his photos by making them really bright, so they’d look decent on his monitor.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:39 am
This current theme seems too “Windows-y” to me… I feel like it may infect my Linux box with its Blue Screen…of Death… ;-)
April 19th, 2007 at 10:27 am
aha…….update.