- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:35:41 -0700
- To: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote: > ± How about keywords? > > How, yes, I like things like > > color(#aaa, 50% of alpha) > for #rgba(aa,aa,aa,50%) > > and > > color(#aaaa, 10% more alpha, 100% more hue) > for the opposite color of #rgb(aa,aa,aa+10%) > > Maybe I'm dreaming too much ^_^ Problem with this is that it's unclear if "10% more alpha" means "alpha + 10%" or "alpha * 110%". Both are valid English interpretations. I like the pure-math version for this reason, because it's unambiguous but still simple. (This is why many places where the value is expressed in percentages will use "percent" and "points" to distinguish between the two cases - saying something "went up 20 points" means +20%, saying something "went up 20%" means *1.2.) ~TJ
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