Re: [css4-color] #RGBA

On 2010-09-06 1:38 PM, Molly E. Holzschlag wrote:
> So even if there were a way to shorthand HSL it doesn't make sense from
> a design standpoint to do so. It's a shorthand in and of itself.

While I don’t think an |#RGB|‐ or |#RRGGBB|‐like syntax is a good idea 
for HSL (as Brian apparently suggested), I can see a good reason from a 
“design standpoint” to abbreviate the HSL syntax further. As someone who 
uses all‐gray or nearly all‐gray palettes, I find it to be somewhat 
tedious and messy to have to use |hsl(<H>, <S>, <L>)| when the first two 
arguments are completely irrelevant.

Something like |hsl(<L>)| or |l(<L>)| where the hue and saturation are 
assumed to be zero (and which I’ve previously proposed as |rgb(<RGB>)| 
for the same reasons) would make this easier.