Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax
Chris Lilley (chris@w3.org)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:20:51 +0100
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:20:51 +0100
Message-ID: <3289D943.3F54@w3.org>
To: Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>
Jon Knight wrote:
> Well CYMK usually, but the idea of 4xn does raise an interesting point;
> would there ever be a need to specify an alpha channel in the colour
> information to allow transparent and/or translucant blocks of colour?
Hi Jon.
Now you are talking. Yes, there could well be a need. We already have
text
and graphics which are overlaid over a background color or
texture/image. Transparency is the obvious next step - real variable
translarency, not
some on-off hack.
Not in 3.2, obviously, or even necessarily in the HTML DTD, but HTML
documents might well benefit from an alpha plane.
--
Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ]
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