>>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.
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>FWIW, when I ask a question, I'll always look first at the self-contained solutions before considering anything that are primarily links.
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>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.
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Disagree with you here. Link to a solution is a legitimate solution, in my opinion.

Anyway, it was not exactly about this particular case, but a general observation. That's why I agree with Hugo, but I would not have the guts to say it loud. But that's what I think as well.