*Anne van Kesteren*:
Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs (including IE) currently do

It may be the right decision on compatibility grounds, but other than that lowercase hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f) are almost always a bad choice, because a, c and e have no ascenders like every hindu-arabic decimal digit has and thus make the number harder to read. This obviously does not apply to fonts with old-style numerals aka. text figures, where 0, 1 and 2 have neither ascenders (like 6 and 8) nor descenders (like 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9), but those are rather unlikely to be used in a programming environment.

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