Re: [css] Proposal: making Shorthand Hex Colors even shorter (16 grayscale shades)

Am 02.08.2011 um 11:32 schrieb Antony Kennedy:

> I like this idea. To extend it to 255 shades of grey you could also use two characters, like #ac.

Ah great idea, I didn't think of that!

If I understand it right you intend it to work like this:


	.gray { color: #acacac; } 	-->  	 	.gray { color: #ac }


(Just store one of the 3 equal rgb-channnel bytes; at rendering put this one value back in any of the r-, g- and b-channels.)

This addition would round the idea off nicely to render either 16-shade or 256-shade gray color.



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> Could a similar implementation be used with RGB()? Although easier to read, it is a more verbose format.
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> On 31 Jul 2011, at 12:34, Markus Bruch wrote:
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>> Hi, I'm new to this list, so please forgive if this topic has been
>> talked about before.
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>> I'd like to propose to further shorten the css hex color notation.
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>> Known notation:
>> 
>> 	.orange { color: #ff6600; }
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>> to:
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>> 	.orange { color: #f60; }
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>> I would suggest that for a specific set of 16 grayscale shades,
>> to reduce the rgb-values to one single character:
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>> 	.gray { color: #ccc; }
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>> to:
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>> 	.gray { color: #c; }
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>> In addition to it's only marginal bandwith or space saving it
>> would have the benefit of being concise and easily visible to
>> the reader, that this code assigns a grayscale color (from a
>> set of 16 shades, #0 - #f).
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Markus Bruch
>> 
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>> macinfo@arcor.de
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