RGB for color specification? from James A. Landay on 1997-12-02 (www-style@w3.org from December 1997)

From: James A. Landay <landay@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 08:04:15 -0800
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971202080415.00cf0100@desolation.cs.berkeley.edu>

RGB is a poor system for people to specify colors in.  I suggest that you
use something better (maybe HSL) for the CSS color specification mechanism.

A few weeks ago I asked the following of my undergraduate class:

	"What is Red in RGB?"
	"What is Red in HSL?"

Nobody was even close in RGB.  In HSL, several people came up with an
answer (and I didn't really teach much on this topic).  

Thanks,

James

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