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How many people use the names as opposed to hex values? I'd rather just use the hex value and ensure it's rendered even if the browser hasn't implemented the l

• wavefunction 11y ago
  I use the hex-values/rgba because what does 'papaya whip' even mean? Plus not everyone on the internet are literate in English so RGBA or hex-RGB is far more internationalized.
  • thaumasiotes 11y ago
    > “I'm not a native English speaker. Imagine my reaction the first time I saw the ‘gainsboro’ color or ‘papaya whip,’” Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the CSS Working Group, told Ars. Speaking as a native English speaker, I don't see how this could possibly be worse for non-native speakers. They have no idea, and neither do we.
• caf 11y ago
  If you were writing an application where you wanted to allow your user to choose colours - say for tagging items or customising an interface - it might make sense to present them with a list of named colours rather than make them choose from a colour wheel (or, heaven forfend, directly enter a 24 bit RGB number). It would likely be best to define your own list of named colours, for localisation reasons if nothing else, but for the initial version of a feature I could see using the CSS colour names directly.