Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax

| I think the current system is the best option for color designation, 
 
| unless of course a standard is developed to simply list all colors by
  
| their name, such as <FONT COLOR="red"> -- I would think that having
to   
| come up with hue percentages would be an even more difficult task
than   
| looking up RGB codes -- is there any kind of support for a standard
to   
| simply list the color names (and more than the typical basic 16)?

100,0,0 is max red, whether you have 10 shades of red, or 100,000,000. 
But 50.77454585990396,0,0 describes a more specific RED shade on those
systems that do support 100,000,000 shades of red ...  this is where a
percent could be beneficial... currently, there are 255 shades between
each current standard's shade than can not be represented on 16bit
hardware with the current method.

(I use shade, I should say intensity...)

Received on Tuesday, 12 November 1996 18:17:05 UTC