- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:12:18 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Victor Vasiliev wrote: > > Section 4.10.4.1.15 says that color must be in sRGB. However, it may be > handful for some applications to have alpha channel specified, since > many GUI libraries (GTK has it; I'm also told Mac OS supports it as > well) support color picker with opacity control. > > I suggest to add a boolean attribute "alpha" to <input type=color> > (disabled by default). If this attribute is present, the color well > allows to set opacity value, and instead of sRGB, sends RGBA. This seems like a reasonable thing to add in a future version. I haven't added it to HTML5, since we're so close to last call, but if our experience with type=color when the UAs widely support it suggests this is important, we can prioritise this as a new feature in the next version. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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