Consider adding CSS Color Name lookup to CSS plugin?

[alexprokop]

Recently I found a background color animation was failing in IE8, this was because I was reading the color to tween to from a hidden div and IE8 was returning the value as 'whitesmoke'. It's easy enough to use a lookup table as here:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1573053/javascript-function-to-convert-color-names-to-hex-codes

 

But might be nice if this was handled internally by the CSS plugin.

[GreenSock]

We actually do have a color lookup in CSSPlugin, but it only covers the most common/standard ones in order to conserve file size. Apparently not all browsers support the exhaustive list, so we focused on the common ones that all browsers understand:

• aqua
• lime
• silver
• black
• maroon
• teal
• blue
• navy
• white
• fuchsia
• olive
• yellow
• orange
• gray
• purple
• green
• red
• pink
• cyan
• transparent