Re: [css3-color] #rrggbbaa annotation

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 10:39 PM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>> On Monday 2010-04-05 10:47 +0900, Alberto Lepe wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there any other objection?
>>> Who else is supporting this addition?
>>
>> To be clear:  adding a feature requires that we do another last
>> call, in which anybody can send comments (on any part of the spec,
>> not just the changes), and then reaching working group consensus on
>> the correct response to all the last call comments received,
>> allowing the commenters the chance to object, etc.  That's a good
>> bit of work -- and work that I probably wouldn't a consider a
>> priority over other things I could be doing -- I think volunteering
>> to edit css3-color was probably a mistake.
>>
>> I'd sort of like to take a subset of the featureset that was in CR
>> in 2003 to Recommendation; this working group hasn't had a very good
>> record lately of advancing documents to Recommendation, and we're
>> pretty close on this one.
>>
>> I have no objection to implementing this, though.  (I'd sort of like
>> to hear an opinion from Molly or somebody else involved in teaching
>> CSS to newcomers, though.)
>>
>> If the working group agrees, are you volunteering to join the
>> working group and do the administrative work described above to push
>> this spec through another last call with this addition?
>>
>> -David
>
> Maybe it would be faster to have it as the only thing in a CSS4 color
> module?

Indeed.  I'm happy to take CSS3 Color to Rec as-is, but would
definitely like #rrggbbaa in Color 4.

~TJ

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