Flickr on Firefox vs IE

[hungrymark]

Does anybody else notice that Flickr pictures look different depending on your web browser? Firefox displays colours pretty much as they are represented on my PP software but IE makes them go all to cock. Tried it on several different computers and it's the same with each one. Why is this? The only thing that I can think of is that I'm using the proRGB colour space(as recommended by Lightroom) and IE just isn't capable of representing it.

I know nothing, as you may have gathered.

 

[terryt]

IE isn't a colour managed program apparently so it won't show any calibration you have done whereas FF does, try opening this image in IE and FF :nuts:

 

[hungrymark]

Ah so it is a colour space issue then?

Thanks

 

[markrichardson]

If you're putting photos on the web, you should probably be converting them to sRGB - that will give you the closest approximation across browsers.

Terry's link above is brilliant - I may have to put something on my site about viewing photos online can be a problem!

 

[tdodd]

IE isn't a colour managed program apparently so it won't show any calibration you have done whereas FF does, try opening this image in IE and FF :nuts:

IE9 renders colours there correctly, or at least the way I suspect they should look. FF4 is all to cock on that file.

Try this page - http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter. IE9 also beats FF4 for this page, at least as far as ICC 4 compatibility goes.

However, for real world files rather than fabricated simulations I find that FF4 renders my images just as Lightroom does, whereas IE9 does not. My monitor is calibrated, which means I do have a monitor profile that needs to be applied. I use FF4 instead of IEx for this very reason.

I only ever output in the sRGB colour space. I do not comprehend why anyone would use any other colour space for output to the web. It's just asking for trouble.