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[css-images-3] Remove non-normative note about color space metadata; prefer "image" to "file". Fix #10075
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### Image Metadata ### {#url-metadata}
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Images can contain metadata
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such as resolution and orientation
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such as color space, resolution and orientation
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which specifies how to render the image.
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Some image formats are flexible in where this metadata can be placed in the file;
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however, if the metadata occurs <em>after</em> the actual image data,
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To reduce the impact of this issue:
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* If the choice exists for a given image format,
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authors <em>must</em> produce their image files
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so that such metadata occurs before the image data in the image file.
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authors <em>must</em> produce their images
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so that such metadata occurs before the image data in the image.
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(Note: This is the default for most images already.)
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* User agents <em>should</em> ignore any layout-impacting metadata (such as orientation or resolution)
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that occurs after the image data begins in the file.
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(Note: This rule does not impact metadata that does not affect layout,
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such as color space information.)
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that occurs after the image data begins.
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If a user agent cannot ignore the metadata based its location in the file
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If a user agent cannot ignore the metadata based its location in the image
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(for example, if the decoder being used
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does not report where in the file the metadata was located),
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does not report where in the image the metadata was located),
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it <em>must</em> use the metadata in all cases.
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(In particular, it is not valid
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to use the metadata only when the image is "small"
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and the entire file is downloaded quickly,
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and the entire image is downloaded quickly,
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but to ignore it if the image is large
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and the metadata isn't downloaded until well after the image starts being displayed.)
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