- From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:33:41 +0000 (GMT)
- To: sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk (James Aylett)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
James Aylett wrote: > > > This gets around the problem of the browser not knowing the meaning of a > > new colour format, since it can be embedded in the document itself. It > > also means that document authors can define a colour setting once and then > > refer to it by name throughout the document, although it would probably be > > less useful in the presence of stylesheets. > > What exactly would you mean the COLOUR (a/or COLOR) element to do? Define > a name which can then be used by BGCOLOR etc.? Yes, although it is more likely to be used by the <font> tag. Quite frequently I see documents with lots of <font> tags for changing colours all using the same hex value . If the colour definition was placed in one place and then referred to by colour attribute of the font tag, then this would simplify maintainance. This is something that can also be solved by stylesheets, I think, but people are still going to use those <font> tags for the foreseeable(sp?) future. -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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