- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:51:50 +0200
- To: Dave Artz <david.artz@corp.aol.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, w3c-css-wg@w3.org
Dave Artz wrote:
> sorry for going off-topic (changed msg subject)
>
> this lighter/bolder discussion gave me a thought
>
> how about a way for designers to easily modify the color or
> background-color property lighter or darker?
>
> sort of like this http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/
>
> could be nice for quickly dealing with different states of links or
> changing a base color hue and having the design quickly re-skin based on
> relative shading
>
> forgive if this has been discussed ;)
I made that suggestion to the CSS WG the 17th of december 2002.
The answer, by Chris Lilley 21-dec-2002, was
"making colors lighter and darker is easy in the same
way as laying out text is easy."
And no, I never thought laying out text is easy...
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