Em 28 de julho de 2010 18:05, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com
escreveu:
2010/7/28 Leo Dutra ™ leodutra...@gmail.com:
Hello, everyone.
I were asking myself about HTML5 input with type color. I'm a
brazillian
developer and I see a huge problem with the new input type. The problem
is
that RGB color names are expected to be written in English. This is not a
good, or even, usability.
There is no official list of localizations of the standard sets of
colors. It kind of sucks for people for whom English isn't their
first language, but nearly all programming languages are based on
English.
Further, once you start giving aliases for some languages, it becomes
hard to justify not giving aliases in *every* language. This isn't
very sustainable.
Yes, nearly all programming langs were written and based on English. But
this is not a development tool, IDE or language... it's the presentation to
the non-dev user, and it should be easy and independant of language. Don't
stuck the usability of the *World Wide Web* in some few countries that has
English speaking users, or it'll not take advance.
I'd like input type=color to work for any
language without porting acrobatics. So I have a new idea.
What about a color picker, and no more langs? ARGB or RGBA (with option
to
restrict to RGB, maybe other restriction patterns). It's independent of
language, easy to implement and much more usable. Social themes, HTML5
slide
sites, RIAs, and all. Imagine the power of picking any color natively and
send a 0xff00ff00ff to the server.
It's still draft, and time to don't twist the web again.
input type=color is *supposed* to expose a color picker. That was
its entire point, actually. Webkit-based browsers don't do it right
now, and just expose the validation part, where it requires a valid
color. Just wait a bit for the browsers to finish up their forms
support, and you'll see a proper color picker there, completely
language-independent.
The http://goog_1610816/input http://goog_1610816/ element represents a
color well control, for setting the element's value to a string representing
a simple color. - HTML5
Drafthttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/number-state.html#color-state
What does String means?
(Also, btw, input type=color will only allow selecting RGB colors.
If you want the A, you have to handle it yourself, perhaps with an
input type=range.)
I think implementing a input type=color value=0xff00ff00ff / or input
type=color value=255,255,255,1 / or similar it's better than a internal
list.
The Universe has infinite colors. Human can see from red to violet. And now,
with rgb names, less. RGB names it's a bad way of picking colors.
I say we MUST have a color picker and a date picker (calendar). It's not
hard and carries much more freedom for development and usability.
Think again.
A hug for you all.
