- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:26:29 -0800
- To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, <www-html@w3.org>, "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>, "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
Chris Lilley wrote: > Although perhaps the example should be something like > > #ff12bb830012 -> #ffbc00 Perhaps. #ff12bb830012 -> #ffbb00 if you don't think additional computation (if the top clipped bit is set add one to the remaining value and if there's a carry set all bits?) is worth one bit of accuracy. > Why? It isn't clear why being able to say > > rgba (36, #bc, 0.7, 112%) is very valuable. It isn't, since 112% would clip to 100%. But if an author -- say a Photoshop user -- is comfortable with decimal rgb values (0-255) and percentage transparency values, why not allow the values to be specified so rather than force conversion of a known transparency effect of 50% to an equivalent 0-255 alpha number of 127? David
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