Subject: Re: syntax for the color property
rms@gastao.greymalkin.yi.org
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 15:25:46 CST
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:08:27PM +0100, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> Paul Rohr wrote:
> > 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?
Simple:
what's the advantage of XML if it's not human readable?
but I agree abiword's xml format may become too complex for human edition, though, thus validating the stupid question.
I also tend to think that it's more efficient to save it as RGB color codes, that to add extra parsing to the color property.
hugs, rms
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