On Sun, 21 May 2017 20:43:10 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The article author suggests recommending to Windows
users that they install Safari before viewing your photos.
Good luck with that, as the saying goes. It's roughly
analogous to telling your friend what stove to use.

That advice is many years out of date. My web browser (Firefox) is
color managed, my screens have been color calibrated for nearly 10
years and Windows has had one form of color management or another
since 1995.

what form was it in 1995?
wikipedia says 1997, 4 years after macos did.

I was relying on
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms969981.aspx which says:

"Microsoft Corporation's first implementation of color management
support was released in the Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system
as Integrated Color Management (ICM) 1.0, an API to which
third-party applications can write. This version of ICM was
designed to address the needs of applications that work with RGB,
to work seamlessly for the end user, and to enable simple support
from application developers."

Windows 95 was of course released on Aug 24 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management#Operating_system_level
Apple's classic Mac OS and macOS operating systems have provided
OS-level color management APIs since 1993, through ColorSync.

Since 1997 color management in Windows is available through an ICC
color management system (ICM).

As of 2005, most web browsers ignored color profiles. Notable
exceptions were Safari, starting with version 2.0, and Firefox
starting with version 3. Although disabled by default in Firefox 3.0,
ICC v2 and ICC v4 color management could be enable by using an
add-on or setting a configuration option.

As of 2012, notable browser support for color management is:
€ Firefox: from version 3.5 enabled by default for ICC v2 tagged
images, version 8.0 has ICC v4 profiles support, but it needs
to be activated manually.
€ Internet Explorer: version 9 is the first Microsoft browser to
partly support ICC profiles, but it does not render images correctly
according to the Windows ICC settings (it only converts non-sRGB
images to the sRGB profile) and therefore provides no real color
management at all.
€ Google Chrome: uses the system provided ICC v2 and v4 support on
macOS, and from version 22 supports ICC v2 profiles by default on
other platforms.
€ Safari: has support starting with version 2.0.
€ Opera: has support since 12.10 for ICC v4.
€ Pale Moon supported ICC v2 from its first release, and v4 since
Pale Moon 20.2 (2013).

looks like mayayana's pet browser is colour managed and he doesn't even
know it.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens