Re: [css-color] Remove gray() Notation

Patrick Dark 2014-08-20:
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> hsl(50%) is not less intuitive. If hue is omitted, then saturation is irrelevant. Therefore, 50% must refer to lightness.

See, you need to understand how the color notation works to infer the meaning. With RGB the value is just repeated. That�s why I said it�s less intuitive, though not necessarily counter-intuitive.

> If grayscale value shortcuts don't make sense for new color formats, then those formats need not have such shortcuts. I don't see that as a significant issue.

My point was that a gray notation would work differently for RGB and HSL, and yet in another way for HSB (or whatever). All would yield the same result though and thus it�s questionable if it makes sense to add multiple notations for the same thing.

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:16:10 UTC