Several months ago, we considered the idea you are proposing and decided not
to accept it because the RGB value is too narrow. That is, there are two
many values that are perceptually identical or nearly so.
We decided that the subjective concept of "yellow" is more useful than an
objective RGB value. We decided that most users would accept
"media-color-FFFF", "media-color-E0E0", "media-color-E0FF" and
"media-color-FFE0" all as yellow media and would be unhappy if their request
for media-color-FFFF" were rejected because "media-color-E0FF" is available
instead.
-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Schade [mailto:norbertschade at oaktech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:29 AM
To: IPP Group
Subject: IPP> global media color attribute
Why not simply taking over the HTML way to specify a color?
Sample could be 'media-color-FFFF00' for yellow.
Or at least add the values to predefined color keywords?
Sample (similar to size) could be 'yellow.FFFF00'.
Regards
Norbert Schade
Principle Software Engineer
Host Software Group
Oak Technology, Inc.
10 Presidential Way
Woburn, MA 01801
USA
Phone: 1-781-638-7614
Fax: 1-781-638-7555
email: norbertschade at oaktech.com <mailto:norbertschade at oaktech.com>