- From: Antony Kennedy <antony@silversquid.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:32:19 +0100
- To: Markus Bruch <macinfo@arcor.de>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I like this idea. To extend it to 255 shades of grey you could also use two characters, like #ac.
Could a similar implementation be used with RGB()? Although easier to read, it is a more verbose format.
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On 31 Jul 2011, at 12:34, Markus Bruch wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to this list, so please forgive if this topic has been
> talked about before.
>
>
> I'd like to propose to further shorten the css hex color notation.
>
> Known notation:
>
> .orange { color: #ff6600; }
>
> to:
>
> .orange { color: #f60; }
>
> I would suggest that for a specific set of 16 grayscale shades,
> to reduce the rgb-values to one single character:
>
> .gray { color: #ccc; }
>
> to:
>
> .gray { color: #c; }
>
> In addition to it's only marginal bandwith or space saving it
> would have the benefit of being concise and easily visible to
> the reader, that this code assigns a grayscale color (from a
> set of 16 shades, #0 - #f).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus Bruch
>
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