- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:58:42 +0200
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday, September 3, 2005, 4:42:53 PM, Patrick wrote: PHL> Apologies for cross posting, but: could anybody shed some light as to PHL> why system colors have been deprecated in the CSS 3 color module? PHL> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-color-20030514/#css-system PHL> In my recent testing on Windows browsers, I found them to be fairly well PHL> supported Yes (like the X11 colors which are also well supported in HTML browsers, now termed the 'SVG colors' in CSS3 color module) they are well supported in practice. PHL> and would posit that they can have quite a valuable role to PHL> play in creating accessible style sheets that match the user's set PHL> colour scheme / preferences (e.g. if a user has set their Windows PHL> environment to High Contrast, a web page can be styled to follow that PHL> preference). Yes, correct. Its not just on Windows, either. Thinking about tests in a test suite, what would the pass criteria be? -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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