Re: Color Lightening and Darkening

I think you mean HSL, not HSB. But anyway, it doesn't matter. However  
the color was specified, the UA would convert it to HSL internally,  
regardless of whether it could parse HSL in the CSS.


On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:34 PM, "Artz, David" <david.artz@corp.aol.com>  
wrote:

> That would work, didn't think CSS could do  HSB?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
> To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>;  
> Artz, David
> Cc: www-style@w3.org <www-style@w3.org>; w3c-css-wg@w3.org <w3c-css-wg@w3.org 
> >
> Sent: Thu Aug 28 19:11:39 2008
> Subject: Re: Color Lightening and Darkening
>
> At 19:05  +0200 28/08/08, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> >Dave Artz wrote:
> >
> >>Can we get a second opinion 6 years later?  If a script kid can do
> >>it in PHP...
> >
> >I am no color expert and I am ready to read pros and cons here.
>
> If you convert colors into Hue-Saturation-Lightness space, then
> lighter/darker would seem to be changes on the third axis, wouldn't
> they?
> --
> David Singer
> Apple/QuickTime