Re: HTML foreground and background colors being the same... poll time!

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> 
> Hrvoje> "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> >> I'd vote for (c), but I have no clue on how to go about finding
> >> or writing a good contrast-finding algorithm. Anyone out there
> >> know of one?
> 
> Hrvoje> You can look at how XEmacs implements the "shadows" in
> Hrvoje> redisplay-x.c.  That's one example I know of.
> 
> Not quite. All they do is modify the brightness around one color
> (the widget background), and they actually [in|de]crease all RGB
> components by the same amount. Finding the best contrast for a given
> color may involve using a totally different one. The guys at gimp
> could probably help you on this.

Thanks for the reality check.  I thought the stuff at redisplay-x was
general.

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