#4160 - Rework Theme Wizard to use CSS color equations

By Chris Graham
Added 3rd Mar 2020, 7:52 AM
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Identifier	#4160
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Rework Theme Wizard to use CSS color equations
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	themewizard
Description	CSS is getting support for calculating colors at run-time: https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-css-color-5-20200303/ This means we don't need to do it in Tempcode anymore. I also wonder if it is possible for the image manipulations we do to be done in CSS now, or for those images to be CSS-generated to start with. Probably not in all cases, but worth investigating. Of course we need to wait for browsers to implement the new CSS functionality.
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By Guest posted 15th Mar 2021, 2:46 PM

Now that the colours are moved out to _colours.css, there's no worry about unnecessary overriding done by the Theme Wizard. And pre-computing is more flexible (we're not limiting to CSS spec) and performant.

Less images are overridden by the Theme Wizard. I don't think it's good to try and re-tint them in CSS. Not performant, and makes it harder for the user to tweak them themselves.