- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:05:24 +0100
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Tantek Çelik writes: > However, I do not think that this was the intent of the CSS1 specification > (perhaps the authors wish to clarify), nor does the CSS validator. The way I remember it, we only wanted to allow the 16 color names that HTML defined, and no others. We had explicit requests from implementers to keep the list short, because even with clever compression, it still implied a risk that an extra memory chip would be needed in some device that was meant to remain cheap. (We were talking about wearable Java devices, e.g.) Maybe we weren't consistent in the wording, but the intention was definitely that 'color: christmas-red' is exactly as wrong as 'font-style: warped'. It is a valid identifier, and thus it may become correct in some not-yet-existing level of CSS, but currently it isn't and should be ignored (as per the definition of "ignore" in CSS). Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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