rgba Color Values are incorrect

[jheimbach]

I have searched a lot for this issue, and i know that the Problem isn't dalekjs but maybe there is a solution for this.

Webdriver/the Browser gives 'wrong' rgba values.

For example if you write something like this.
'backgroundcolor is correct': function (test) { test.open(url) .assert.css('.backgroundStripe', 'background-color', 'rgba(98, 202, 217, 0.7)', 'backgroundStripe has right color') .done(); }

Instead of the expected (and in the stylesheet defined) value rgba(98, 202, 217, 0.7) phantomjs returns rgba(98, 202, 217, 0.699219) and chrome returns rgba(98, 202, 217, 0.701961)

I think the reason why this happend is:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/13754993/3233058

Maybe there is a simple solution for this, but i haven't found one.

Versions i used:

• dalekjs: 0.0.8
• dalek-browser-chrome: 0.0.9
• dalek-browser-phantomjs: 0.0.3

[asciidisco]

I´ve seen this before but totally forgot about it. Indeed your findings seem to be the root of the issue.
Maybe @rodneyrehm has heard about this before and can add something to the discussion?

[rodneyrehm]

While specifications CSS2 Color and CSS3 Color define the computed value to be formatted "as specified", no browser reliably does this at this point.

I'm not sure I like the notion of testing for a given color in the first place. I'd argue that you should be testing for an element being in a given state (certain class name present, data-attribute filled, etc). But if you must check for a specific style, you'll have to deal with the short comings of computedValue() yourself.

For colors I can recommend chromath for working with colors and this SO question might help with creating a fuzzy color compare function

[Munter]

I've had to deal with these comparisons myself in the color library I wrote because I use floating point representations internally. This is how I solved it: https://github.com/One-com/one-color#comparing-color-objects

[MrOutput]

my rgba values don't even work on phantom 3