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Re: X11 Colors (was Last call comments on CSS3 module: color)

From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020523102524.00b0e6f0@mail.webgeek.com>
To: glazman@netscape.com (Daniel Glazman), Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
Cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, www-style@w3.org, HTML WG <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, Andrew Clover <and@doxdesk.com> 
At 12:04 PM 5/23/2002 +0200, Daniel Glazman wrote:

>Conclusions : right, the X11 color set should not be a standard 'de 
>jure'... ooops, too bad, that's already a standard 'de facto'. We have to 
>live with it, I'm afraid.
>
>http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/tools/ColorNames.txt

We may have to live with it being out there, but it does not automatically 
follow that we must codify it as good behavior.

Ann
Received on Thursday, 23 May 2002 10:42:50 GMT

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