Add all 147 colors to dojo.Color.named

[bill]

Like the comment next to dojo.Color.named says, "rest will be added later". Should be 147 colors in all.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Probably it makes sense to add "grey" color to the mix as a courtesy for our users. See #3228.

[bill]

I'd rather you didn't, because it makes two names for the same thing, leading to "gray" being spelled different ways in different parts of the code, and also making it harder to generate an inverse lookup table, mapping from hex value to name. Bug #3228 is just asking us to fix the spelling in our CSS files.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

I did some research on this matter.

A file with all 147 colors is 3,916 bytes. I doubt that our syntax compressor can do anything about it. I tried several different compression schemes. While it is possible to compress the data, the decompressor takes space too. The best I could get was 2,927 bytes before syntax compression. I guess that the syntax compressor can get ~100 additional bytes. So we are talking about 1k savings.

I am attaching the original file I played with, the compressed file, and the test file. All 3 files are supposed to be put in dojox/compression/tests/.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

lists all 147 colors

[Eugene Lazutkin]

lists all 147 colors using some simple compression

[Eugene Lazutkin]

compares color tables produced by colors.js and colors3.js

[bill]

Hmm, I wouldn't worry about doing decompression in javascript. That's what gzip etc. is for. (Sure, some people won't setup their web servers to do compression, but I don't want to go so far as to penalize people that do.)

It is a clever trick though.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

I worried more about IE6, which doesn't support gziped .js files. At least it doesn't support them reliably, rendering the whole thing unusable. With IE7 out for a year I don't know how important the IE6 support for our users.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

(In [9532]) After multiple consultations I am committing a table of all named CSS3 colors. It populates (replaces) dojo.Color.named table. Because it is out of the core we don't sweat too much about its size => it is not manually compressed. Fixes #3188.

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Sorry, it should be: "it is out of the base".

[Adam Peller]

(In [9534]) Provide translations for dojo.colors. Use mixins to add CSS3 to existing colors in _base. Fixes #3188

[Adam Peller]

(In [9535]) Add translation comments, fix a few spellings. Refs #3188.

[Adam Peller]

(In [9536]) more spelling fixes. hope I got them all this time. Refs #3188