- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:00:09 +0100 (MET)
- To: Blair MacIntyre <bm@cs.columbia.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Dec 6, 5:34pm, Blair MacIntyre wrote: > I've recently read the color part of the CSS specification. Thanks. > While I'm very happy that you are specifying colors in sRGB, so that we > may start to expect some sort of uniformity across displays, I am dismayed > to see that only an RGB notation is going to be supported. Okay. > While RGB is convenient for machines, and often useful for people who have > become accustomed to it, in many situations, either the HSV or (even > better) HSL notations are more useful. Both of these notations are simple > transformations of the RGB color space, but represent more intuitive > spaces I urge you to read the archives of this mailing list [1] for previous discussions about the non-intuitive nature of HSL (and HSV). > - selecting a range of similar colors, for shadows or highlighting. > Using these spaces, we simply change the value/lightness or saturation, > but keep the hue the same. The corresponding activity, of changing the hue but keeping the lightness the same, does not give the intuitively expected results using HSL. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1997Dec/ -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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