[jameshart]

These issues are much less about wanting the color that shows up on the user’s screen to precisely match the color the designer intended, and far more about making sure that if you send the same color to display on the same screen via PNG, WEBM, WebGL and CSS, that they should end up looking the same.

If you’ve got an embedded video that has inter titles whose background color is the same corporate red as your webpage header, you should be able to get the pixels to be the same color, right?

[munk-a]

We are losing the ability to ignore device coloration though - since some activities are intended to be carried out on multiple displays at once (i.e. a phone and monitor or switch with tv display). Being consistent across devices is beginning to matter and is an incredibly hard problem to solve.

[d110af5ccf]

I'd argue it's completely unsolvable because devices tend to have different color gamuts. My laptop screen generally covers significantly less of the sRGB gamut than any external monitor I plug into it. Meanwhile the OLED in my phone covers more.