Re: [css-color] Remove gray() Notation

Patrick Dark 2014-08-20:
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> hsl(50%) is not less intuitive. If hue is omitted, then saturation is irrelevant. Therefore, 50% must refer to lightness.

See, you need to understand how the color notation works to infer the meaning. With RGB the value is just repeated. That’s why I said it’s less intuitive, though not necessarily counter-intuitive.

> If grayscale value shortcuts don't make sense for new color formats, then those formats need not have such shortcuts. I don't see that as a significant issue.

My point was that a gray notation would work differently for RGB and HSL, and yet in another way for HSB (or whatever). All would yield the same result though and thus it’s questionable if it makes sense to add multiple notations for the same thing.

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:16:10 UTC