- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:13:35 -0800
- To: "'Walter Ian Kaye'" <walter@natural-innovations.com>, "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
6.141% = (101^3) / (256^3). All three colors. -Chris Chris Wilson cwilso@microsoft.com -[- >-----Original Message----- >From: Walter Ian Kaye [SMTP:walter@natural-innovations.com] >Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 1996 10:06 AM >To: www-html@w3.org >Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax > >At 8:22a -0800 11/12/96, David Perrell wrote: >>Professional displays may someday be 48-bit. > >MacOS has used 48-bit color for many years, and gets "downgraded" >for use with 24-bit HTML values. > >>As for percentages of RGB, is there anyone out there who can actually >>visualize 20%R35%G67%B with any accuracy? I've never seen RGB color >>tables represented as decimal percentages. Specifying RGB in integer >>percentages effectively limits color choices to 6% of what's possible >>with 8-bit values. > >6%? 101/256 = 39.45% on my calculator. Did you use the Pentium 'fdiv'? ;-) >I, for one, cannot visually discern 0-100% from 0-255 in rendered colors, >though I always go for precision to satisfy my techie nature. :) > >__________________________________________________________________________ > Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript, > Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML > http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter > >
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