>But the thing here is that the original question was not formulated correctly. Nevertherless I figured that Jay was after parsing the color into its RGB components and thus sent him a link. He sort of dismissed it and sent several people shooting in the wrong direction. Then Marcia posted the same thing (essentially) and got starred. I found this a bit unfair.

FWIW, when I ask a question, I'll always look first at the self-contained solutions before considering anything that are primarily links.


Not exactly related, but I think there's a lot of value to the community in having things explained multiple times by different people, and posting links as solutions doesn't aid that effort.

Tamar