Re: BGRA, ARGB, etc. suggestion
Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:43 AM, John Bowler < [email protected]> wrote: > ----- John Bowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > That phrase (*device-dependent greyscale*) is totally >> > devoid of meaning >> >> PNG-1.2 spec, paragraph 14.3, explains what that phrase means. > > > I asked my wife "what colour is that" and she said, approximately, "blue, > sort of grey round there, yellow" (it was an image of some food). I then > asked "what greyscale is that" and she said, "what do you mean, grey sch?" > I asked my wife questions about the spec, too, when it was in draft form. She suggested that we include a glossary, so we did. > There are 14 uses of greyscale in 1.2 (using the American spelling), not > one of them attempts to define what it means. > It's in the glossary. The glossary even survived the ISO editing (it's called "abbreviated terms" there). Glenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ png-mng-misc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-misc