- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 06:31:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest > returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs (including > IE) currently do for CSS already and what Mozilla already does for > <canvas>. Done. On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Christoph P?per wrote: > > It may be the right decision on compatibility grounds, but other than > that lowercase hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f) are almost always a bad > choice, because a, c and e have no ascenders like every hindu-arabic > decimal digit has and thus make the number harder to read. This > obviously does not apply to fonts with old-style numerals aka. text > figures, where 0, 1 and 2 have neither ascenders (like 6 and 8) nor > descenders (like 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9), but those are rather unlikely to be > used in a programming environment. You can use uppercase letters when setting, which is where you're most likely to see this. It only affects the getter. I think consistency with the rest of the platform will get us at least as much of a win for authors as would be gotten from uppercase letters. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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