alternate font properties

Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org> wrote:
>The 'font' property is a "shorthand" property to save keystrokes and
>bandwidth. It's pure syntactic sugar; in CSS1, a rule involving a
>shorthand property can always be rewritten using using the individual
>properties.

Speaking of which..

Why is it that border-width is shorthand for border-left-width,
border-right-width, etc., while border-color isn't shorthand
for anything?

-Sho