- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:42:32 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Percentage of either “whiteness” or “blackness”, i.e. I bet almost everyone intuitively thinks of `gray(0%)` and `gray(100%)` as either pitch black, bright white or, at least for the latter, the grayest gray possible (something like actual `gray(50%)`). With `gray(100)` on the other hand, you’ll have *in addition* some people assume that this is a decimal 8-bit value as in `rgb(100, 100, 100)` (for which it would be a shortcut notation in their mental model). With `gray(0)` you’d even have some thinking it’s the minimum in a 0.0…1.0 range. Unitless numbers are bad! They’re much worse than percentages that can go outside the 0%…100% range. It would make more sense to standardize [X11’s `gray0`…`gray100`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Shades_of_gray) keywords then. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Crissov Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/635#issuecomment-256011990 using your GitHub account
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