Re: syntax for the color property

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:08 PM +0100 1/10/01, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
>Ehm, stupid question maybe, but why is the current way of specifying
>colors (through hex RGB) not good enough in all cases?

        Because you might want to specify it in some other color
space such as grayscale, CMYK, etc.


>Why would you ever want `blue' in the fileformat, instead of `00ff00'?

        Because you were coding the format by hand, or by some tool
OTHER than AbiWord.


>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?
>
        Why does CSS and XSL do it?


LDR
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