dojo.style should normalize colors

[sjmiles]

Colors in FF are returned as rgb(#,#,#) and #hex in IE. It seems natural that dojo.style should attempt to normalize these values.

Perhaps there is a function for this somewhere already?

[Adam Peller]

You should be able to construct a dojo.Color with the string, then spit it back out using your choice of toHex or toCss. Only problem is that this will lose alpha information, as there's no x-browser way to represent that. If you're always dealing with rgb (no a), then you're ok.

[Adam Peller]

Scott - we try to limit our dot release fixes to bug fixes and usually don't even have a milestone for this defined until after the major release goes out. In particular with an enhancement, we'd probably rather just see it land in 1.3 if it doesn't make 1.2.

[bill]

1.2.1 is only for critical bugs that we find in the 1.2 release; nothing should be marked as 1.2.1 until after we release 1.2

[Eugene Lazutkin]

Replying to peller:

You should be able to construct a dojo.Color with the string, then spit it back out using your choice of toHex or toCss. Only problem is that this will lose alpha information, as there's no x-browser way to represent that. If you're always dealing with rgb (no a), then you're ok.

Color.js + dojo/colors.js work with alpha. Taking into account Adam's workaround I am closing this ticket.