On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Sam L'ecuyer <sam@cateches.is> wrote: > >> The first one seems to mean that the red channel is set to 3/4 of the alpha (opacity) channel. I don't know what the second one is supposed to mean. > > As far as I know, opacity doesn't get applied to individual color channels. > As long as all of these resolve to the same thing, I'm for it. > > color(#ff4500, alpha 50%); > color(orangered, alpha 50%); These resolve to the same value. > color(255, 69, 0, .50); This won't exist - I assume you mean "rgba(255, 69, 0, .50)". > color(255, 69, 0,alpha * .5); Assuming you mean "color(rgb(255, 69, 0), alpha * .5)", no, this will be the same as the above, but only by accident. It'll cut the current alpha channel by half, which happens to set it to 50%, since it starts at 100%. ~TJReceived on Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:03:40 UTC
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