Re: [css4-color] #RGBA

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> I don't have the link (and didn't see it in the original mail), but I'm referring to the extension of adding the #rrggbbaa syntax (CSS4) *not* the extension of adding rgba (CSS3).
>>
>> If you add a "non-functional" syntax to RGB, and don't add it to HSL that suggests that HSL isn't worthy of spending the time to provide a tight non-functional syntax so that it has parity with RGB.
>>
>> So with the CSS4 change, RGB is now two steps ahead of HSL -- it has rgb(), rgba(), #rrggbb, and #rrggbbaa whereas HSL only has hsl() and hsla().


I wouldn't think so. With #RRGGBB you have 256 values per channel. 
With rgb() you have 256 values per channel. With hsl() you have 256 
values per channel.


> #rgba is nothing more than a completion of #rgb.  It's not a separate
> new feature.  It's just us maintaining feature parity between the
> syntaxes.
> 
> As well, this isn't a race.  There are three color syntaxes.  The fact
> that two of them happen to refer to the same color-space is
> irrelevant.
[snip]
> ~TJ


HSL uses sRGB color-space.



<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB>


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