- From: George Lund <george@lundbooks.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:37:58 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
In message <B99D21CE.168D6%tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> writes > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#css3-user How does this relate to the brief section on color in the CSS 3 'values and units' document? >ActiveHyperlink > Active hyperlink background. >ActiveHyperlinkText ... >Given this entire thread of discussion, I'm not convinced that this is the >right way to solve the problem of expressing user preferences for link >colors. There were also several last call comments saying as much, and >going on to say that there needed to be even better/more user control over >color. Indeed, surely someone creating a user style sheet would be specifying actual colours for HTML elements, rather than somehow defining these 'constants' in a manner outside of the language. Obviously in most cases users themselves won't be creating user style sheets direct - but it would totally screw up any authoring tool that was designed to help users create their own personal style sheet, if it couldn't even influence link colour. This looks like an attempt to introduce semantics into CSS, which is surely a _bad thing_ (tm). If CSS wants to address xml:link documents as well as HTML, it would surely be better to just make sure that CSS has the selectors necessary to do the job. That surely would be a better way of assigning a particular colour scheme to all links, rather than relying on some 'magic' to happen outside of the CSS layer which will define the values. Maybe I am too late with comments like this though :-( -- George Lund
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