I've noticed that when I use the color picker in BBEdit and use the
magnifying glass to grab a color from the screen, the color that it
inserts into my document is different from what I've grabbed. I think
this is because BBEdit is converting the color from its "literal"
value to its "calibrated" value based on the ColorSync profile for my
monitor. For example, let's say I have a web page preview window open,
and there's a background color I want to copy into another document.
The CSS for the web page specifies that color as hex value #242226,
but when I use the color picker magnifying glass and insert the color
back into BBEdit, it changes it to #1B191C, which is what OS X has
decided is the "Device RGB" value.

I should say that this isn't specific to BBEdit, but it does make it
harder to keep color consistent. I have one color picker called Hex
Color Picker <http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/> which has an
option called "Don't generate calibrated colors". With this enabled,
the hex value that appears in the color picker is consistent with the
CSS for the web page (which is good!), but if I simply accept that
value, BBEdit still inserts the wrong one. The only way to get around
this is to manually copy the hex numbers from the color picker and
paste them into BBEdit, but that's a lot slower than just plucking
with the magnifying glass.

Is there any way around this? Some hidden preference I'm missing?

While I'm on the topic, is there any way to have BBEdit insert color
values into CSS in the decimal rgb(r, g, b) format? Better still, I'd
love to be able to insert colors using the CSS3 rgba notation: rgba(r,
g, b, a) where a is the alpha (transparency) value.

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