- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:23:45 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Once upon a time Smith, Brooke shaped the electrons to say... >Why can't multiple notations be used so that if someone understands RGB >they can use that or HSL if they prefer that or .... Possibly encode Compatibility. I set the background to 'black' or "#000000" - but then I use HSL to set the foreground to white. Browsers that exist *today* will not understand HSL, and are then highly likely to set the background to black - and set the foreground to the most common default: black. Adding a new color encoding system to an entrenched, established system is risky, and I don't consider it at all advisable. There are already tools that can use HSL and RGB, so it isn't a hard thing to set the HSL values you want, find the RGB match, and use RGB in the document. Change the tools, not the transport mechanism (CSS in this case). -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-737-2100 FAX: 510-737-2110 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 4464 Willow Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
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