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24.0.50; Hex colors are not rendered correctly on OS X (Cocoa)

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From: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
Cc: 8402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Erik Andrejko <eandrejko <at> gmail.com>, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: bug#8402: Acknowledgement (24.0.50; Hex colors are not rendered correctly on OS X (Cocoa))
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 20:31:35 +0100

On 4 May 2011, at 17:58, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:

> ** OTOH it's possible to imagine the emacs project deciding - rather backward incompatibly for x11 users mind you - that, say, "#RRGGBB" syntax color strings in emacs on all platforms are actually to be considered to be in the sRGB colorspace henceforth, like they are officially in html/css.


This would be a great step forward, IMO: sRGB is the standard on the web and on most displays, and a clear definition of Emacs' colorspace would be a Good Thing.


> So a more backward-compat friendly thing to do than using #RRGGBB for srgb, might be to add support within emacs for an "sRGB:<red>/<green>/<blue>"  syntax by analogy with the standard XParseColor() ones, and handle it internally


Adding a new "sRGB:r/g/b" syntax seems less clean -- if you'd have to handle it explicitly before passing it to XParseColor, why not just make it the default?

-Steve

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