Lobby for Internet Explorer 7 ICC support

[lancea]

We're all well aware that Internet Explorer for Windows doesn't respect embedded colour profiles. I've tried beta 1 of IE7 for Windows XP and it doesn't either. That doesn't mean the final version won't - but I can't find anything to say it will. I've just posted a "feature request" for "color management" on the IE7 Wiki at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerFeatureRequests. I don't think I have a lot of influence ;), so if any of you have Microsoft contacts then I hope you can also push for colour profile support. If you come across any newsgroups that are discussing IE7 then throw in some comments. Imagine - a world where we could retain an Adobe RGB profile when "saving for the web"! :)

Microsoft Office 2003 does use embedded colour profiles when displaying an image. So part of Microsoft knows how to do it, it's just a matter of getting the IE7 people to do it too ...

[Pelao]

Do other browsers support the feature you want? If so, use them. IE is probably the weakest browser presently available.

[lancea]

That's not the point. I am browser agnostic - I daily use Opera, Firefox and IE6 and 7. The fact is that IE is still by far the most common browser so it is the way most people view photo sites. It's also a fact that there are many commercial sites (especially banking) that only work correctly with IE.

But in answer to your question - I understand Safari on the Mac does. Opera 8.01 (build 7624) and Firefox 1.0.6 don't.