Subject: Re: syntax for the color property
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 16:07:56 CST
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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