Sent by Porter Glendinning on 8 February 2002 14:02
At 10:04 2/8/02, Eric A. Meyer digitized these thoughts:
> Personally, I find the rgb() value types easier and more intuitive
> to manipulate; hexadecimal never really appealed to me. Then again,
> I despised assembler when I was in college, so your mind may vary.
I definitely agree with your underlying thought here, Eric. I think
this issue really comes down to what you're comfortable with. For me,
hex has never been that hard to wrap my brain around, and I like the
more compact notation. It's not going to work for everyone, though, so
I'm glad to see alternate methods made available.
The one thing that I can see having an impact here is if CSS color
values were ever extended to include non-RGB-based color spaces. In
this case, the rgb() notation seems to provide the most security of
forward compatibility -- other color spaces could use similar
notations, e.g., cmyk() -- but if that were to happen I would imagine
that the bare hex values would be grandfathered to assume RGB for the
sake of backward compatibility.
- Porter
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