Re: Color in HTML
Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit (lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk)
Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:53:28 GMT
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:53:28 GMT
Message-Id: <94060722532769@cguv5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk>
From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
To: koblas@netcom.com, www-html@www0.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Color in HTML
koblas@netcom.com wrote:
> <P>John ate the <NEW_TAG COLOR=RED>red</NEW_TAG> apple.
> While Jill played in the <NEW_TAG COLOR=GREEN>green</NEW_TAG> grass.
> Things where there can be:
> <STRONG COLOR=MAGENTA>Accessing this services costs $50.</STRONG>
Red? Which red?
Oh don't get me started about colour, or I will be insisting on specifying all
colours as ISO standard LAB values for device independence, and then where will
we be? ;-) ;-)
Besides, I want a tag to do a diagonal gradient fill from deep orange red
through peach to white on my H1.
#ifdef US-Citizen
This is dry humour, look at the smileys
#endif
Seriously, such things should be in the style sheets if they are ever adopted, I
think.