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9377	jQuery static Color class would be useful for cross-platform color comparison	keith.mcfarlane@…		"I recently noted that the following code is not browser safe:

 var HTMLtag =  ... ;
 HTMLtag . css ( 'color', 'red' );
 if ( 'red' ==  HTMLtag . css ( 'color' ) )
  ...;
 else
  ...
 ;
 It would be useful to have a jQuery . color ( String )  method
 thst creates a Color object with an instance method or
 boolean compare ( final Color color )

 This is a very modest addition that would handle the css ( 'color' ) String return values of (inter alia ) 'rgb (255, 0, 0 ). 'red' and '#FF0000'. Obviously this could be extended to return RGBA. CMYK and other colr representations.

 While this might be thought no core it's such a small addition that it might be though similar to jQuery . trim ( String ) ..."	enhancement	closed	low	1.next	css	1.6.1	plugin