- From: Ian S. Graham <igraham@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:27:34 EDT
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
> > < Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > < > > < > Mike, > < > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > < > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > < > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > < > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > < > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. > < > < I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, > < which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No > < text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages > < say they all are part of HTML v3. > > Yes. Infact, the english spec (rather than the DTD) states that text colors > *MAY* need to be adjusted, but earlier on it says that background is only > for the benefit of clients that do not support style sheets. > > I.e. Style sheets are the right way. > > Netscape color extensions (like many other netscape extensions) are hot air > and presumptiously defined. > > Unfortunately, style sheets are still being defined :) Hmm.... so something that is implemented, operational and popular is "hot air", while "still being defined" stylesheets are not??? Ian
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