- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:39:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
- Cc: dbaron@fas.harvard.edu
There is, as was pointed out on www-html recently, a huge problem with
the stylesheet in REC-html40:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/style/default.css
On BODY, color and background-color are specified, but no link colors
are given. This means if a user has a light-on-dark color scheme, the
links can easily disappear, since the light-colored links from the
user's color scheme will appear on a white background. You need:
A:link { color: blue; }
A:visited { color: purple; }
A:active { color: red; }
or something like that to appear before the rulesets for a.normref and
a.informref.
If this requires issuing a new version of the spec (although I don't
think it should), I think it should be done. W3C should be setting a
good example on how to use stylesheets. (And yes, I do bug the
stylesheet people about their pages not validating.)
David Baron
Received on Saturday, 27 February 1999 10:39:40 UTC