- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 16:04:23 -0500
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
MegaZone wrote: > Would HSL be something that doesn't take practice? It seems like any > format would require practice to use effectively. More to the point, there are a class of people who would be able to deal with this more effectively than RGB. >... > color so the system used really doesn't matter. And to mean that means > there is no point adding yet other options. No, I don't think that follows. > In the real world that that means is something else that will NOT be > supported. Just as the RGB percentile values aren't now by the major > browsers. The more possible systems, the greater the likelyhood of > deployment issues, which is a major pain for developers already. The fewer > the possible systems, the more reliable support will be, and the easier > it is for authors to develop pages. While this is probably true (although I *do* support percentiles). I don't particularly understand it. Percentiles take even less effort. But I'm not in favor of getting into predicting the behavior of browser vendors. If I were to do that I'd advise dropping alot of things. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/SSO http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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