- From: Lea Verou via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 05:26:12 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
@aurelienpierre You seem to have some experience with color in CGI and photography which appears to inform your opinions. Please keep in mind that CSS is a technology that targets a wide variety of mediums (websites, vector graphics, print etc), and thus, cannot be designed solely with the needs of a specific medium/field in mind. Furthermore, color in CSS needs to interoperate with every other part of the Web Platform, with an even wider range of targets. There are also a number of other constraints, such as: - Backwards compatibility. Code previously written needs to continue to work the same, with very few exceptions in cases where the result is very clearly better for every use case. - Color in CSS needs to be defined via a single `<color>` value, and must interoperate with any other `<color>` value. This means any color space needs to be able to work with any other, and that rendering intent cannot be perceptual, because we cannot use algorithms that take the entire set of colors on a website into account. - For the same reason, we cannot meaningfully use color appearance models: we simply don't have this amount of data about the viewing environment. - Whatever we choose needs to interoperate with existing tools. E.g. if you find an amazing color space that solves all problems, we'll still add Lab *as well* because so much tooling supports it. Lab/LCH might not be perfect, but they do produce better results than the current gamma-corrected sRGB interpolation in nearly every case. You asked, how is "better" defined? By designers, not programmers or computer scientists. Designers are the experts in assessing aesthetics. No matter what numbers say, if designers overwhelmingly deem something as undesirable, it is. UIs are not created in a vacuum, they are created to serve their users, and CSS is a (text-based) UI that also needs to serve its target users. As an aside, it really saddens me to see how your apparent inability to behave like a decent human being towards everyone else here is making you unable to contribute productively. It saddens me because you did make some valid technical points, but they are lost in the sea of uncontrollable ranting. In the end, you could have used your knowledge to help improve the technology, but all you were able to do was vent. As @faceless2 pointed out, it seems like a poor use of your time, but you do you. Down the line you will likely realize that being able to communicate your ideas effectively is just as important (if not more) than the ideas themselves. Your ideas make absolutely no difference to the world if you can only express them by screaming profanities, because everyone ignores you and moves on. This is a lesson that many of us learned the hard way in our twenties, and I suspect eventually you will too, hopefully not too late. -- GitHub Notification of comment by LeaVerou Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4647#issuecomment-635110974 using your GitHub account
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