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Re: CSS 3 color module and deprecation of "system" colors

From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:56:52 +0200
Message-ID: <431D59D4.4080005@disruptive-innovations.com>
To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Cc: www-style@w3.org 

Robin Berjon wrote:

> I don't disagree that there are issues with system colours and that they 
> are far from perfect. But can you make the case that they are completely 
> broken? If not, don't deprecate them.

I never said they are broken. And I was not in favour of the deprecation.
If only 'appearance' was a shorthand for 'appearance-color' 'appearance-
border-color' and all the others we need to express a system appearance,
the deprecation would make some sense. But that's not the case, IMHO.

</Daniel>
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