Re: [css-color] Have you considered standardizing a rgba(#RRGGBB, <alpha-value>) notation? from Rik Cabanier on 2013-05-10 (www-style@w3.org from May 2013)

From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 20:00:14 -0700
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>, Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>, "Sam L'ecuyer" <sam@cateches.is>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>, Šime Vidas <sime.vidas@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > HSL is an alternate representation of RGB. There's no magic mapping
> between
> > color gamuts like you would need for Lab.
> > How useful would this be though. Does anyone think in these terms?
>
> The color-altering functions in SASS are *very* popular and
> widely-used.  They're often used in combination with SASS variables,
> in ways that translate over directly to CSS variables.
>

Interesting!
Why would you want this supported natively (instead of having the author
calculate it in advance). Is it so you can transition between luminance
value?

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