Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax

• From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:31:23 -0800
• To: "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, <www-html@w3.org>, "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
• Message-Id: <199611132342.PAA28694@armenia.it.earthlink.net>

I wrote:
> Perhaps. #ff12bb830012 -> #ffbb00 if you don't think additional
> computation (if the top clipped bit is set add one to the remaining
> value and if there's a carry set all bits?) is worth one bit of
> accuracy.

Oops. Shouldn't that be "a half-bit of accuracy," since without
rounding the final result won't be more than half-bit off?

David

Received on Wednesday, 13 November 1996 18:43:54 UTC