I have an 8 bit colour display and am using X 4.02; when I go to the Debian site (www.debian.org) the rounded corners on the rectangle appear in a different colour even though they are the same. Edited IRC log: wildfire == me; Joy == webmaster@debian.org * wildfire notes the rounded corners on the debian site are a different shade of red to the red rectangle <Joy> wildfire: they can't be, your display is wrong <Joy> wildfire: we used the same hex code to generate the HTML and the PNGs <wildfire> no, my display is right <wildfire> they come up a different color <wildfire> err, colour * wildfire spits .. damn americans <wildfire> do you want a screen cap.? <Joy> wildfire: it's #DF0451 in the HTML... lemme check the Gimp <wildfire> oh, same with the blue corners btw <Joy> gimp says it's #df0451 <Joy> wildfire: how many colors does your display have? <Joy> wildfire: 16, 256, 65K, 16M? <wildfire> 8 bit <wildfire> 256 <Joy> wildfire: that's probably the reason. arguably we should have used a different color from the start, but your software should be using the same color, too.

Could be a gamma-correction issue. PNGs are gamma-corrected, while text is not...

wfm may be color set

everything looks correct here, even in 8 bit mode. must have been fixed at some point, marking WFM

No, this still fails for me with build 2001080104. It isn't a colour set issue because the boxes come up the right colour and portions of the image also come up correctly. It may be a gamma related issue but I don't believe that mozilla does that for PNGs. I've used xmag to zoom in on the problem area and the PNG attached is from electric eyes (and annoyingly the colours differ between all three: mozilla, xmag and eeyes. sigh.) Anand

*** Bug 97478 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

also reported on Mac

btw, i see it happening in millions of colors.

Marking NEW based on the dupe.

I read thru these ramblings and don't still don't know why, in theory, the color space should be rendered with any modification at all. Rendering of html and css colors, yes that requires gamma consider, etc. However, the answer is simple [unfortunately] just replicate IE. 90% of the browsers are IE, so designers pick colors that look good with IE; period. As I understand it, PNG is a compression algorithm. Therefore, the decompression algorithm should repoduce the orginal, without any modification. Al.............

In response to comment 11: Doing gamma correction according to the spec does replecate IE for Windows, since Windows is already sRGB so no correction needs to be done. It just makes Mozilla on other platforms look more like IE for Windows. (I don't like that attitude in general, but it's true in this case.)