CMYK on the (printed) Web

[tiagosilva29]

I was wondering... since it's possible to define stylesheets for print media (which will hopefully become more enhanced in CSS3), why wouldn't be possible to add CMYK(A) in numerical color values?

em { color: cymk(0%, 94%, 100%) } /* float range 0.0% - 100.0% */

This would be cool.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

h3 { color: cmyk(0.8, 0.5, 0.0, 0.3) }

It's already in the draft.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/#cmyk-colors

Unless of course you already knew this and were just bringing attention to it.

Edit: No Alpha component though, probably just an oversight or something.

[tiagosilva29]

Unless of course you already knew this and were just bringing attention to it.

Haha, I wasn't. I actually dreamed about it last night. While putting it on a print css a bunch of prairie dogs jumped into my desk and called me a douchebag.

Why are they using a 0-1 float instead of 0-100 float percentage?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Probably because it's consistent with some other things (opacity takes 0-1)

One of the main things I'm interested in is proper printing support for embedded SVG files, I've had inconsistent results (some stay vector, others get rasterised, others become a mismatch), oh yeah, and better support for the format in normal web pages (I should be able to do something like <img src="file.svg#specificElement" />, In browsers that support SVG as images, I still haven't found one that supports this usage)

That and proper colour handling (Every install of Firefox 3 I have, has colour management enabled, and even then it messes colours up)

[tiagosilva29]

Opacity isn't color. Unless they're doing the same 0-1 float on color, this doesn't make sense.

As for the SVG support... we have to wait. Remember how things were 3 years ago? It will never go backwards, at least :p

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah, that's odd. They're mixing the styles.

p { color: rgba(100%, 50%, 0%, 0.1) }

That's using both styles, which is just strange.

The CSS Working Group works in mysterious ways :p

[tiagosilva29]

The CSS Working Group works in mysterious ways :p