- From: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:47:53 -0700
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: > On Thursday, May 30, 2002, 5:50:25 PM, Tobias wrote: > > It remains to be shown, though, that any color naming syntax has any > benefit over entity references which can be used to assign any desired > color to any desired keyword, under user control, in any language, > with 100% interoperability and no changes to the specification. It is only beneficial, in my opinion, if it is not a homomorphic relation between color names and rgb values. X11 color names provide the same benfit as an entity reference. CNS offers modifiers that change colors by an equation rather than a direct 1:1 lookup in a table. The same can be said if rgb was described by a triplet of names rather than a number i.e. rgb(light,medium,dark), though the relation is really just something where dark is translated to 80%, light to 20% and medium to 50%, giving a pretty straightforward equation which is really just a lookup table for percentages. The same is true if in hsl, the three values were presented by descriptive names i.e. if hsl was given by hsl(blue,medium,brightest). CNS seems to have a more interesting relationship than these examples, making entity references a not so viable option. A quick summary of recent alternative named color proposals may be found at http://www.dylans.org/articles/namedColors.html -- Dylan Schiemann http://www.sitepen.com/ http://www.dylanschiemann.com/
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