- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:38:41 -0800
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: CSS public list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:21:15 PM, Tab wrote: > TAJ> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: >>> You can lighten, darken, hue rotate, desaturate already using the filter syntax. > TAJ> That lets you lighten/darken/etc an entire particular element. It > TAJ> doesn't help the use-case of tweaking a color that is then used > TAJ> throughout the document (like a variable), or of tweaking the color > TAJ> used in a single property in an element. > > Ah, okay. > > So the use case is declaring one colour in a style sheet then generating a bunch of (lighter/darker/triad) colours from it? > > If so, should the dependent colours change when the base colour is changed (by script) or animated? Yes, definitely. CSS is declarative, and you're declaring "I want X color, but darker", so it should *always* be a darker version of X, no matter how X changes. ~TJ
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