The Queen’s stylesheets

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 12:17 PM UTC

chestnut-tree wrote: post #60

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some are incorrect. Transparency and opacity are opposites.

They are in the sense that 100% transparency = 0% opacity. But in the end, aren't they both giving the same effect in CSS? In Illustrator, for example, the interface has an opacity setting but the help file refers to it as setting the transparency since that is essentially what you're doing when you lower the opacity. (Personally, I prefer the word transparency, it just seems clearer to me.)

  transparency: 0;

  opacity: 0;

Post by FuzzyDunlop » Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 2:52 PM UTC

   border-radius-for-all
   border-radius-for-Webkit
   border-radius-for-Opera
   border-radius-for-Firefox

Post by MattBearman » Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 3:23 PM UTC

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #64

It's amusing, although I'm lost with their proposal of "transparency" over "opacity", since they are opposites and, as far as I know, used on both sides of the Atlantic. Also obtaining the transparency would require applying the transformation x -> 1-x to the opacity. I feel I'm missing something with this example.

Post by emddudley » Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

Post by kdazzle » Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

chestnut-tree wrote: post #60

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some are incorrect. Transparency and opacity are opposites.

They are in the sense that 100% transparency = 0% opacity. But in the end, aren't they both giving the same effect in CSS? In Illustrator, for example, the interface has an opacity setting but the help file refers to it as setting the transparency since that is essentially what you're doing when you lower the opacity. (Personally, I prefer the word transparency, it just seems clearer to me.)