Re: error tolerance within amaya

In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 08 Sep 1999 14:35:43 +0100."
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> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, John Russell wrote:

> According to what I can make of the HTML 4.0 spec, there is no default
> colour for backgrounds in HTML, and CSS2 seems to say that where no colour
> is defined then the result is undefined. It does not say it will default
> to black, although it does say it will depend on the agent.
> 
> Since Amaya seems to be an editor first and browser second, I think that
> it should not default to black without saying why.  Maybe it should ask
> the user what colour to use, with some predefined choices?  People may

That's just a bug in the CSS implementation. Amaya uses the returned color
even if the CSS parser detected an error.

  Irene.