Re: [css4-color] Re: CIE color definitions in CSS3 color module

256 values is not enough, as the color space would be compressed. (you would
have more like 100 valid values for sRGB)

On 17 September 2010 18:10, Alexis Shaw <alexis.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean that the definition needs to be able to have more than 256 possible
> values, more like 10000 possible values
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> On 17 September 2010 18:03, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>wrote:
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>> alexis.shaw@gmail.com:
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>> > you need to be able to use more than 8 bits of precision in these
>> colorspaces, a percentage xx.xxx% ? stored as a fixed point 16 bit number?
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>> CSS in general doesn’t concern itself all that much how something is
>> represented in memory, but how authors can specify something. So, although
>> 24bit is enough to accurately store any specifiable color in the “#ABCDEF”
>> and “rgb(0,127,255)” formats, UAs may store them within 48bit or somethig
>> else. If they clip to sRGB, which seems reasonable for desktop browsers,
>> 24bit would still be enough (if I’m not mistaken), as long as they can parse
>> values outside that space.
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