This was posted by Jake at Utterlyboring.com but it is just so darn cool news I had to post it here. I got his permission of course :-D
If you have ever done any major Photoshop or desktop publishing work, you know that adjusting the hue, saturation and lightness (HSL) values of colors is a quick and easy way to adjust colors, especially if you're looking to adjust a color to make it a slightly different shade. Coming, in CSS3 is a whole new color model that will allow HSL colors to be used online. Why is this nice? The advantage of HSL over the current RGB model is that it is far more intuitive: you can guess at the colors you want, and then tweak. It is also easier to create sets of matching colors (by keeping the hue the same and varying the lightness/darkness, and saturation). Here's an article that discusses it a bit more.
A new CSS color model!
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Comments (3)
Very nice, Can see a lot more pastel coloured "neutral" sites coming from this :-D
Will IE ever support CSS3 though? Who cares, It doesn't even support CSS2 yet plus Gecko and KHTML are far superiour, hurah :-P :=D
Posted by SPeedY_B | June 20, 2003 8:47 PM
Posted on June 20, 2003 20:47
Yea down with Exploder. Esp. since MS has stopped developing it for the mac.
Posted by Ken Edwards | June 20, 2003 9:17 PM
Posted on June 20, 2003 21:17
They did mac owners a favour.. If only they'd stop developing it for Windows, then perhaps people could see the web how it's supposed to be and stop using IE-only code to make sites.
Posted by SPeedY_B | June 21, 2003 8:29 AM
Posted on June 21, 2003 08:29