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Well I agree that it is wrong simply because it breaks (for example) the PNG standard:

"RGB samples represent calibrated colour information if the colour space is indicated (by gAMA and cHRM, or sRGB, or iCCP) or uncalibrated device-dependent colour if not."

So webkit shouldn't try to transform the colors to sRGB but simply display it according to whatever display is present.

Having said that sRGB designed to be consistent and not high quality. It even has a "black point" defined, but nobody respects that since it would cause a maximum contrast ratio for all images represented in sRGB.



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