Do you have any examples on hand of PNGs that use the new features of the spec? It would be cool to see a little demo page with animated or HDR images, especially to download to test if our programs support them yet.
Chris Lilley--one of the original PNG co-authors--has a post with an example HDR image: https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html
It is about half way down, with the birthday cake.
Generally, us tech nerds have phones that are capable of displaying it well. So perhaps view the page on your phone.
What you should look for is the cake, the pink tips in her hair, and the background being more vivid. For me, the pink in the cake was the big give-away.
Thank you for the examples. I tried the one with a pink cake. Turns out that on my machine only web browsers are capable of displaying the image properly. All viewers (IrfanView, XnView, Nomacs, Windows Photos) and editors (Paint .NET, GIMP) that I've tried only showed the "washed out" picture.
Yeah. We were able to get buy-in from some big players. We cannot contact every group, though. My hope is since big players have bought in, others will hear the message and update their programs.
Sooooo file some bugs :D
Also, be kind to them. This literally launched yesterday.
It's interesting that Paint.NET supports the vivid image if you screenshot the cake (Win+Shift+S) and paste it. But, opening the PNG opens up the washed out picture.
> But you have a bigger point: I should have live demonstrations of those things to help people understand.
Pink can pose problems for individuals with red-green color blindness (or more exactly: color vision deficiency). So make sure that examples work for these people too. Otherwise the examples might not work for about 8% of your male viewers.
It's really not that limited, the problem is only if you reinterpret a larger gamut as sRGB without doing the proper conversion where things look washed out.
That's what I thought too, but the difference is big. You'd think you maybe lose some color lights, or very bright flowers, but no, colors outside sRGB are common.
There was nothing you could do about the TV, the screen couldn't show all the colors that you needed.