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HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript

16 points by bhouston

by bhouston

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It works best in Chrome as for some reason you can not set Floating point data into a Canvas object in Safari, even if it supports "display-p3" color space. Specifically Safari will never get to this line in the feature detector:
https://github.com/bhouston/hdrify/blob/main/demos/web-conve...

by jiggawatts

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"Direct HDR" doesn't work on Firefox, Edge, or Chrome on Windows 11 with a HDR OLED screen (and HDR enabled in OS).
It's 2026 and we've figured out how to make computers talk in 100 languages, but not how to show pictures consistently.
I'm guessing: nobody's bonuses are tied to correct HDR display output at any megacorp. Until that happens, we will all just have to continue living in an 8-bit SDR world.

by bsimpson

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one of my pet peeves of computing in this millennium has been images that make your screen arbitrarily go dark.
i presume this is a defect in how macs display HDR content embedded in an SDR container.