- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:57:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, "www-validator-css@w3.org" <www-validator-css@w3.org>
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> What is the rationale for issuing the warning "Same colors for color and
>> background-color in two contexts"? It seems that the warning is always
>> issued, with default settings, when one rule assigns the same value to
>> background-color as one rule assigns to color, e.g.
>
>> a { color: black; }
>> b { background: black; }
>
> Well. Isn't it simply the case that we are discussing
> CSS, rather than CSS embedded in HTML, and therefore
> the CSS validator can have no knowledge as to whether
> an <a> element will be embedded in a <b> element, and
> therefore seeks to warn the user that such a usage
> would be ill-advised ?
Yes, it's a "be aware that unwanted things might happen" warning, you can
see in the advanced interface that there is a selection of "all", "normal"
,"most important" warnings.
The choice might be clearer, or the warning might output its severity in
the report...
--
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
~~Yves
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