- From: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:32:04 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Regarding the X11 color keywords, I have to ask why these are becoming part of the spec.? Don't flame me or take this as a flame, I just really want to know why. I've never though it was a very good naming system. Take for example the first color. When I see the description AliceBlue, I don't think of the color that I see, which is a faint pastel blue. While I can't think of a better system off the top of my head, I am sure other people have thought of schemes which are more descriptive and consistent, and which don't require knowing a list of 140 color names. This sort of large, inconsistent naming scheme is what bothers me most about it. Maybe something that include up to three color names (out of the existing 16) and an optional description from a list of 10 or 15 descriptive words for each would be better. For example, PastelBlueDarkGreen . Really, though, it isn't much better. I seem to remember a proposal a while ago to use things like darker and lighter which didn't go over very well. Isn't a larger list of named colors really the same thing, just less consistent? -Dylan Schiemann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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