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Re: bgcolor="transparent" - valid or invalid? confused...

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:45:42 +0200
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <42BCB746.6F0F@xyzzy.claranet.de> 

Ian Stuart wrote:

> Does this imply that IE is doing something specifically
> because it see's the word "transparent", or that firefox is
> trying to interpret "transparent" as an RGB colour, and
> coming up with a darkish blue?

It's possible.  I don't know what your browsers do, but for
my browsers and funny effects with unofficial colour names
see <http://purl.net/xyzzy/colour.htm>

                           Bye, Frank
Received on Saturday, 25 June 2005 02:08:51 GMT

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