Comments on: New version of rgba.php is out!

By: Lea Verou

Lea Verou — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:54:48 +0000

Since a new version is out, comments closed on this one. Please direct any comments to the post for the new version or, even better, to the issues section at Github.

By: rgba.php v1.2: Improved URL syntax, now at Github « Lea Verou

rgba.php v1.2: Improved URL syntax, now at Github « Lea Verou — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:07:09 +0000

[...] seemed to like the idea and started using it. With their valuable input, I made many changes and released v.1.1 (1.1.1 shortly after I posted the article due to another little fix) on October 2009. A year after, [...]

By: Lea Verou

Lea Verou — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:56:13 +0000

Yeah, the color_ part was unnecessary and you ended up not specifying r this way.

By the way, one feature I’d like to implement in the next version is making the syntax more similar to the CSS one, like rgba.php/rgba(46,46,50,0.3) instead of rgba.php?r=46&g=46&b=50&a=30

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:54:33 +0000

Take that back… not sure how i ended up with the word color in there… all is well

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:46:36 +0000

Only thing about this that i find slightly confusing.. is that say you use

background: url(rgba.php?color_r=46&g=46&b=50&a=30) repeat;
background: rgba(46,46,50, 0.3);

They end up being 2 totally different colours.. so its hard to get the right combination to keep the same colours using the 2 methods..

By: Pushpinder

Pushpinder — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:05:45 +0000

Thanks a ton!

By: Suso Guez

Suso Guez — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:03:28 +0000

Brilliant idea, very useful. I’m using it right now for my next redesign!

Thanks!

By: Poco

Poco — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:51:27 +0000

Thanks for this!

Also, why don’t you allow for urls like this?: rgba.php?1,2,3,4

I don’t think these would have to be urlencoded, and it would be easier to read.

By: Bulletproof, cross-browser RGBA backgrounds, today « Lea Verou

Bulletproof, cross-browser RGBA backgrounds, today « Lea Verou — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:33:34 +0000

[...] UPDATE: There is a new version, here [...]

By: Jennie

Jennie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:43:21 +0000

Thanks, Lea! I was having trouble with the old script (it would break after initially loading… I think related to undefined apache_request_headers() as you pointed out). This cleared everything up. RGBA in IE the easy way… makes me very happy!

By: Lea Verou

Lea Verou — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:43:17 +0000

Happy new year Igor!

Thanks, zip updated

By: Igor Zevaka

Igor Zevaka — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:50:27 +0000

Thanks heaps for this, it’s such a time saver transforming layout for proper browsers to work in IE )

One thing I noticed was that the Expires time does not conform to HTTP spec according to RED(Has to be “01 Jan…”):

http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.somethingorothersoft.com%2Fcolors%2Frgba.php%3Fr%3D14%26g%3D32%26b%3D59%26a%3D40

I don’t think this causes any issues, it just came up as I was troubleshooting image caching in Chrome.

By: Basilakis

Basilakis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:30:58 +0000

Oh lea, u drive me crazy! That is a greate tool and to say the truth, i have missed it when u first posted it.

Combining it with a good UI, it can be easilly used for option templates to WordPress (sorry, but i am wp addicted )