Re: SVG Color Keywords Applicability

On Tuesday 2007-06-26 21:59 -0500, Patrick Garies wrote [in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jun/0187.html ]:
> Do the "SVG color keywords" [1] apply outside of SVG? For example,  
> should they apply in HTML? I would say “yes” since major Web browsers  
> currently support them in such contexts, but the example profile for  
> HTML 4 [2] excludes SVG color keywords and Section 4.3 [3] has “SVG” in  
> the name.

This has been recorded as
http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css3-color#issue-19 and has been
addressed in the editor's draft at
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-color/#svg-color by adding the
sentence:
  # This specification extends their definition beyond SVG.

-David

> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#profiles
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color

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Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 00:04:46 UTC