molkman Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 1774
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Does anyone know how I can avoid having different colors on Windows than on Mac on a website in the exact same image? That doesn't make any sense to me :C .
So you have a picture which has different tones when displayed on Windows and when displayed on Mac? Not sure I unnerstan'.
Due South, that's the way I'm goin'
molkman Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 1774
604 ₧
Okay, cool. Thanks, I'll try those.
I had the problem with pngs once, but it was between Firefox and IE on Windows. The one image had a different tone than the other. If you looked at both in Photoshop and took the color code, it was the same, although one could clearly see it being different colors.
That was between a .gif and a .png. Now I changed it to .jpg and .gif. While it looks all the same on Windows with FF and IE, now there's a difference in Windows and Mac. I changed it to both being .gif and now it seems to be all right, I'm not sure though. (You can check yourself here if you have both a Mac and a PC. The horizontal green menu strip at the top didn't match the background color of the menu items when touching them with the mouse.
Rockbomb has a point, as we're sure you know GIFs are limited to 256 colours. At some point, IE did not do PNGs properly either.
Due South, that's the way I'm goin'
Yes, Webkit fully complies, which means Safari gets 100 as well. AFAIR the latest builds of FireFox end up at 96 and IE 8 *shudder* hits the sixties, maybe.
And Presto by Opera gets 100.
Due South, that's the way I'm goin'
(Edited 2010 Jun 8 at 15:03)
2010 Jun 8 at 15:03
molkman Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 1774
604 ₧
Rockbomb said:
Well there's your problem, .gif is shit unless its an animated picture.
But .gif is the only one that actually worked! And the images I'm dealing with have only like, 2 colors.
I'd love to see browsers team up on their engines, so websites look all the same on every browser. Because right now it's pretty ridiculous.
Well, the IE renderer is always going to remain closed :p
Theoretically, this is what standards are for. But I'm not even sure if it's a browser issue - all browsers use standard libraries for the images and things. It sounds like a really weird problem!
Due South, that's the way I'm goin'
[...] I changed it to both being .gif and now it seems to be all right, I'm not sure though. (You can check yourself here if you have both a Mac and a PC. [...]
Can you link to the one that doesn't work? I'm curious to see what's wrong.
2010 Jun 9 at 13:15
molkman Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 1774
604 ₧
Okay, here you go:
http://exotworking.com/head_test.htm This one has different colors between Mac and PC. It's always the top horizontal menu background and color when you touch a button. Both greens are different.
The JPG is only a little off. JPG is a lossy format so there's no expectation that colors will not shift a bit. JPG should only really be used with photographs anyway.
Also the look of your JPG is highly dependent on the compression level your image editor uses to save the file.
(Edited 2010 Jun 10 at 11:00)
2010 Jun 10 at 10:59
molkman Owner of George Washington's Prototype Mittens
2005 May 2 • 1774
604 ₧
Cool shizz, dog.
However, after crushing the png, the darker green stripes stuff is way ligher and harder to see than on the other, working images.
superjer said:
The JPG is only a little off.
Yes, but on Windows, it's not off at all.
(Edited 2010 Jun 10 at 11:05)
2010 Jun 10 at 11:04
Ok I ran your JPG through jpegtran, once with "-copy none" and once with "-copy none -optimize" which uses something called a Huffman table to make the file smaller.
Interesting the resulting image file sizes are less than 10% of your original.
