- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:08:09 +0000
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > is anyone aware of ANY user agents that support "User preferences for > colors", as defined in CSS2? it seems like one of the most sane > approaches to honoring the user's default operating system environment's > settings: From some tests I did back in 2005, I seem to remember that IE 6 (and possibly earlier) and Firefox do actually support system colors. I raised the question of why system colors were deprecated in CSS3's color module (see the thread starting here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2005Sep/0010.html) but the discussion got nowhere fast, and the suggestion to retain system colors was simply rebutted with "that's what 'appearance' is for". For kicks, I reinstated my old test page http://dev.splintered.co.uk/system_prefs/ P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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