On 30/03/07, Jukka K. Korpela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you use the shortcuts _only_, you are limiting yourself to
256 colors, which often isn't very restrictive but doesn't mean
actual benefits either.
Actually 16×16×16 = 4096 colours are possible.
Cheers,
jens
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Jens Brueckmann
Chris Ovenden wrote:
Interesting issue, and one I haven't given much thought to before. For
what it's worth I only use the colour keywords 'black' and 'white' (no
argument about what these mean!)
But what about the three-digit hex contractions - ie #363 instead of
#336633? I love other CSS
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Chris Ovenden wrote:
Interesting issue, and one I haven't given much thought to before. For
what it's worth I only use the colour keywords 'black' and 'white' (no
argument about what these mean!)
I do pretty much the same, though in tests and examples, 'red', 'yellow'
: Chris Ovenden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jukka K. Korpela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS color names values versus accessibility
Interesting issue, and one I haven't given much thought to before. For
what it's worth I only
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
David White said:
...The point about using numbers (I.e. Hex values) instead of names is
purely so that there can be no misunderstanding when parsing on the client
browser. Some browsers render grey (for example) differently but if you use
Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
The more convincing answer for my question
(http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/86680)
I've got on a WAI list.
David White said:
...The point about using numbers (I.e. Hex values) instead of names
is purely so that there can be no
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS color names values versus accessibility
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
David White said:
...The point about using numbers (I.e. Hex values) instead of names is
purely so that there can
On 3/30/07, Mauricio Samy Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apart the 'probably' typo (grey instead of gray)
Yeah, it was a bit hard hearing the (UK) English word described as malformed!
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Chris Ovenden
http://thepeer.blogspot.com
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Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
Number color CSS value is consistent across browsers and colour values
isn't.
Mauricio, 'red' is always #ff.
f is the largest number expressible in an integer on the hexadecimal
scale. 0 is the lowest. #ff000 translates as rgb(255,0,0), which
translates as
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
Apart the 'probably' typo (grey instead of gray)
I don't think it was a typo but a reference to a typo, i.e. to the effects
of a misspelled color name.
If you specified a color name (one of the 17 valid colors keywords on the
Specs) browsers
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Chris Ovenden wrote:
On 3/30/07, Mauricio Samy Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apart the 'probably' typo (grey instead of gray)
Yeah, it was a bit hard hearing the (UK) English word described as
malformed!
Yet it is, in CSS. Just like colour is, or couleur, or Farbe.
On 30 Mar 2007, at 12:05:07, Mauricio Samy Silva wrote:
If you specified a color name (one of the 17 valid colors keywords
on the
Specs) browsers can render
it slightly different (i.e. red (or other color name) is more ou
less darken
according the browser).
This can broken the contrast
* Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
Incidentally, the gray/grey issue isn't helped by the fact that
Netscape Navigator had an extensive list of colour names, which
included both gray and lightgrey - the story I heard back in the
day was that an English developer had been involved in implementing
that
On 30 Mar 2007, at 14:26:14, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
Incidentally, the gray/grey issue isn't helped by the fact that
Netscape Navigator had an extensive list of colour names, which
included both gray and lightgrey - the story I heard back in the
day was that an
On 3/30/07, Jukka K. Korpela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Chris Ovenden wrote:
Yeah, it was a bit hard hearing the (UK) English word described as
malformed!
Yet it is, in CSS. Just like colour is, or couleur, or Farbe.
I'm well aware of this. But I have to deal with typing
On 3/30/07, Bryan Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Ovenden wrote:
On 3/30/07, Jukka K. Korpela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Chris Ovenden wrote:
Yeah, it was a bit hard hearing the (UK) English word described as
malformed!
Yet it is, in CSS. Just like
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
browsers nowadays support both lightgrey and lightgray
for backwards compatibility... although none of those extended colour
names appear in any formal spec relating to CSS, so that's OT.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color
Ah, there they
Funny, even though I'm on this side of the pond, I've never been able to
write that shade as gray - always looked wrong to me... guess that's
why I always use the hex values. Though it certainly confuses family
when I say, is my #555 and black jacket still at the cleaners?
- daniel
the colonies
Hi Mauricio,
So, why avoid colors names if they are legal according CSS21 specs?
The color names are deprecated in the same sense that certain HTML tags and
attributes are. This doesn't mean that they won't continue to be supported by
browsers but what W3C recommomend, i.e. hex values, will
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The color names are deprecated in the same sense that certain HTML tags
and attributes are.
No, they are not. There are explicit statements in HTML specifications
saying that some elements and attributes and usages are deprecated. There
is
Hi Kieron,
Are colors names deprecated?
So, why color names are on CSS3 Specs?
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-iccprof#colorunits
Maurício Samy Silva
http://www.maujor.com/
Hi Mauricio,
So, why avoid colors names if they are legal according CSS21 specs?
The color names are deprecated in the same
Of Jukka K. Korpela
Sent: 29 March 2007 16:49
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Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS color names values versus accessibility
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The color names are deprecated in the same sense that certain HTML
tags and attributes
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Kieron McIntyre wrote:
Actually, what the WAI define and what is defined in the CSS specifications
are two completely separate things. Just because the CSS 2 and 3
specifications state that colour names CAN be used doesn't mean that they
SHOULD be used.
That is correct.
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