- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:02:52 +0100
On 10 May 2007, at 07:31, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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. Would it not make more sense to fix the UAs. lower-case hex is horrible to read. - Nicholas. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2157 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070510/f169d741/attachment.bin>
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