- From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@mugca.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:09:37 +1100
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:08:12PM +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote: > >The latest version of tidy automatically replaces hex color values with the > >corresponding names. The code looks as if this was supposed to become a > >configuration option in the future but is currently hardcoded to yes. > > > >I believe the default should be to not replace colors -- "#000000" is just as > >valid as "black". > > No, the behaivour is intended, Tidy should IMO always transform the case > of hex digits and replace those 16 colors with their corresponding color > names. Why enforce this 'personal' preference? > >The option probably should allow conversions in both directions, i.e. > > > > ColorAttributes: symbolic|hexadecimal|asis > > I don't see any good reason why one wants Tidy to turn readable color > names to unreadable color codes. Well, the obvious example is varying browser support for color names. Regards, Doug
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