- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:08:06 -0400
- To: roedy@mindprod.com
- CC: site-comments@w3.org
roedy@mindprod.com wrote: > > It is a royal pain in the behind to have to specify colours as hex > numbers in css style sheets, just because browser makers can't get > together on a set of standard colour names and their precise > definitions. > > I enclose the list used by Netscape and suggest you make it an > official standard or at least post it on your site as a suggested > set. CSS includes a list of standard color names [1]: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. - Ian [1] http://web3.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#color-units -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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