- From: Chris Josephes <cpj1@winternet.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:12:28 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Mike Wexler <mwexler@mv.us.adobe.com>
- cc: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Mike Wexler wrote:
> Wouldn't it bet better to do
> p { background: rgba(20%,0%,0%,50%) } /* fine value = alpha (opaqueness) */
>
> In the first example it is called rgb, but for values are supplied.
> Second, in computer graphics Red, Green, Blue, Alpha is much more common
> that Red, Green, Blue, Transparency.
Yes! I was trying to remember what the heck to call the transparancy
value (my original inspiration of this idea was the color palette
system for the Next computer, and after a brief check though some old
documentation I remembered it was called the Alpha channel).
I like the idea of using "rgba" since it does clearly indicate the usage
of a transparancy channel to the person writing/reading the stylesheet.
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