w3c / png

Maintenance of the PNG specification
https://w3c.github.io/png/
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Explicitly say that `cICP` can be used for Display P3, and add an example #423

Closed svgeesus closed 6 months ago

svgeesus commented 6 months ago

Because many laptops, tablets, phones and even watches from the last 8 years have Display P3 screens, Display P3 images are increasingly common.

The PNG spec can (together with a close reading of H.273) be interpreted to realize that PNG can use cICP to compactly label a Display P3 image, provided that the person reading them is aware that:

I suggest that ordinary readers of the spec, and ordinary implementers of programs that spit out images, would be better served by an explicit statement and a clear example ,so they don't need to go through all those steps.