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Bug 22424 - This says that the default color is set to black. From a UI point of view, I think this is quite bad: when set to black, the defult color wheel shows colors having a lightness set to 0, and thus only [...]
Summary: This says that the default color is set to black. From a UI point of view, I ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-06-22 10:33 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-03 22:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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chrome example on OSX (55.18 KB, image/png)
2013-06-22 10:36 UTC, Alice Lieutier 		Details

Description contributor 2013-06-22 10:33:01 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#color-state-(type=color)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#color-state-(type=color)
Referrer: 

Comment:
This says that the default color is set to black. From a UI point of view, I
think this is quite bad: when set to black, the defult color wheel shows
colors having a lightness set to 0, and thus only shows black. I think it
would be much better to have white as a default, because a 100% lightness
makes for a colorwheel that shows the whole hue wheel.

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130612 Firefox/23.0
Comment 1 Alice Lieutier 2013-06-22 10:36:09 UTC 
Created attachment 1377 [details]
chrome example on OSX
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-02 22:55:13 UTC 
The colour wheel can show whatever the colour wheel implementors want to show, it doesn't have to be limited to hue=0 colours.

The default is black because black is 0 and that's the default for everything else, too.