Color function and percentages about coloraide

[facelessuser]

Maybe color(lab 44.36 36.05 -58.99) is a typo? I always find the CSS spec frustrating as there are always ambiguous things.

I'm curious if you were to use color(lab 1 36.05 -58.99) would it be lab(100% 36.05 -58.99)? If so, is 36.05 for a treated like 100 * 36.05 (which seems wrong)? Or are numbers treated as numbers and only percents get scaled (so a one way conversion)?

I guess to explain it better, 100% will always translate to a float between 0 - 1. But numbers are treated as absolute. When dealing with Lab, whose channel's a and b can be between +/-160 (technically can exceed that) 100% doesn't actually translate well to the full range of the channel. So I imagine you wouldn't normally want to use percent there, but are percent channels handled special? Lightness in Lab is clearly a percent, do you scale that to 0 - 1 and not a and b? Or do you still scale none in Lab to 0 - 1 and just not use percent in Lab?

[facelessuser]

It seems we now have clarification. Percentage only channels will not translate to 0 - 1. So CIE Lab and friends will have 100% equal 100.