Comments on: Annoyed by Opacity http://cssquirrel.com/blog/2008/06/20/annoyed-by-opacity/ opinions and news on web design Thu, 17 May 2012 05:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kyle http://cssquirrel.com/blog/2008/06/20/annoyed-by-opacity/comment-page-1/#comment-129 kyle Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:52:30 +0000 http://www.cssquirrel.com/?p=38#comment-129 That does make sense. I guess I just wish that all the modern browsers were already using the scalpel (RGBa), and not just the blunt hammer of opacity... although come to think of it, IE doesn't even have the hammer. Here's hoping IE8 is improved in that regard. Not that I'm holding my breath. That does make sense. I guess I just wish that all the modern browsers were already using the scalpel (RGBa), and not just the blunt hammer of opacity… although come to think of it, IE doesn’t even have the hammer.

Here’s hoping IE8 is improved in that regard. Not that I’m holding my breath.

]]> By: Eric Meyer http://cssquirrel.com/blog/2008/06/20/annoyed-by-opacity/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Eric Meyer Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:10:45 +0000 http://www.cssquirrel.com/?p=38#comment-104 'opacity' operates exactly the same way 'visibility' does in this regard, and was more or less specced to act as a form of variable visibility. If you set a paragraph to be hidden, you can't make its links visible. Similarly, if you make a paragraph half-opaque, you can't make its links more opaque than that. Although you should be able to make them less opaque, come to think of it. As in, set the paragraph to be half-opaque and the links to be half-opaque: that should make the links less opaque than just setting the paragraph half-opaque. But anyway, think of it as variable visibility and you're set. RGBa operates a different way, in part to make it more powerful and flexible than 'opacity', which is kind of a blunt instrument (just like 'visibility'). ‘opacity’ operates exactly the same way ‘visibility’ does in this regard, and was more or less specced to act as a form of variable visibility. If you set a paragraph to be hidden, you can’t make its links visible. Similarly, if you make a paragraph half-opaque, you can’t make its links more opaque than that. Although you should be able to make them less opaque, come to think of it. As in, set the paragraph to be half-opaque and the links to be half-opaque: that should make the links less opaque than just setting the paragraph half-opaque.

But anyway, think of it as variable visibility and you’re set. RGBa operates a different way, in part to make it more powerful and flexible than ‘opacity’, which is kind of a blunt instrument (just like ‘visibility’).

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