Re: hr not accepting either background or color attribute

> msie and netscape are in debate over which should color the horizontal
> rule .... but amaya avoids issue by not doing anything ;-[  ;-[  ;-[  
> which is correct property according to w3.org ( i would think background
>  as there is no content to color up)  and will amaya be implementing ....  

Hum, Amaya draws a top line with the foreground color and a "white" bottom
line. When the height of the <hr> is too short, the colored line is covered by
the white bottom line. I changed the write order of top and bottom lines to
avoid that problem now. Meanwhile, you can see the colored line by encreasing
the height of the <hr>.

WHY MUST IT DRAW A 'WHITE' LINE UNDER THE FOREGROUND COLOR LINE...
THIS STRIKES ME AS A ''CONTROL'' ISSUE.  Can the white line part not be 
handled as styling --- ie  treated as a bottom border line ....   that way you 
can default it to what you like to see ( a 1px white line)  but if an author 
wants to style it differently they can ....   this is exactly how opera 
handles it...  a bottom border defaulted to thin white  but under user control
using styling .....   
if you change it, i know it will not be this round  but maybe next... and i
 think that a change will be philosopically correct...  to put styling into
  style sheets   not in browser hardcoded.....   //
John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
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Received on Monday, 24 March 2003 08:04:54 UTC