- From: Keith Hopper <kh@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:46:37 +1300
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
In article <20030211170958.C1F943DFD@lihue.inrialpes.fr>,
Vincent Quint <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Bug 2 (not so sure)
> >
> > Amaya displays "grey" color like "gray" and "lightgray" color like "lightgrey"
> > but the correct names are only "gray" and "lightgrey", aren't they?
> They are.
> > "grey" and "lightgray" values are shown by Amaya and Mozilla, but are not shown
> > by Internet Explorer.
> These colors are accepted by Amaya. Not sure they should be removed...
The colour names 'grey and 'lightgrey' are standard English spelling -
however US spelling differs, writing 'gray' for 'grey'. In order to cater
for both forms of English, both spellings are accepted (as I would say
'unfortunately' - but then, being English, I'm biased!).
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