Subject: Re: syntax for the color property
From: Frodo Looijaard (frodol@dds.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 15:08:27 CST
Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> Sounds like somebody needs the same bit of code that all web browsers have.
> You need to discriminate between two disjoint sets of color specifications:
>
> - six characters that look like hex
> - a discrete match in some lookup table
Ehm, stupid question maybe, but why is the current way of specifying
colors (through hex RGB) not good enough in all cases? Why would you
ever want `blue' in the fileformat, instead of `00ff00'? I just don't
see any advantage in this. I mean, the whole file format is low-level
nitty-gritty stuff, so why add abstraction only for color?
Just wondering,
Frodo
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