<Swing Dev> RFR: 8256019: JLabel HTML text does not support translucent text colors

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:00:09 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Issue is a JLabel with a translucent foreground color properly renders plain text, but with HTML text, the alpha component is discarded and the text is rendered using an opaque color.
> As per https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/func_rgba.asp, CSS supports rgba() to support alpha and render translucent text color
> but support for rgba() is not present in JDK html text rendering.
> 
> Added support for rgba() to render translucent text color.

any further comments?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1158