Gallery Slideshow Issue with Wide Gamut Monitor

Bob_A

The standard gallery slideshow produces over saturated images (especially with reds) when viewed on a wide gamut monitor calibrated using full (native) gamut. It's apparent that the slideshow using Adobe Flash isn't color managed, even if you are using a color managed browser such as Firefox. The same images viewed in the gallery are fine (no color cast or over-saturation issue).

As expected the HTML5 replacement for the home page slideshow by J Friend displays colors properly on the same system.

Anyone using a standard gamut monitor or a wide gamut monitor calibrated to sRGB gamut won't notice this issue.

Given that wide gamut monitors are becoming more prevalent does anyone know if there is a fix for this or if Smugmug is planning to upgrade the standard gallery slideshow so that it will work properly for those users?

jfriend

Smugmug seems to be almost 2 years behind replacing their Flash slideshow with an HTML5 variant that would address this issue. They clearly know how to do it (they use a simple HTML5 slideshow on iPhone/iPad) and several third parties have done it (mine included). I have no idea why it's taking so long for them to fix this as this could be a totally incremental thing that doesn't need to rely on lots of other infrastructure changes. There are a lot of things like this overdue (new gallery style is a big one). I wonder what's up?

Bob_A

Thanks John. After a Google search it sounds like some Zen users are also frustrated about the same issue and they've been promised a fix for two years.

jhofker

I hacked in an HTML slideshow for my homepage a long time ago* and haven't looked back. I also wonder "what's up", but this post on the dev blog seems to indicate that something is coming. (Someday)

(*Whenever jQuery 1.4.2 was the latest...looks like over two years ago)

Bob_A

Any chance someone from Smugmug could comment on 1) if the issue is known and 2) if they are working on a fix?