Re: New Working Draft published: CSS3 module: Color

From: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2001, 5:32 PM

> Regarding the X11 color keywords, I have to ask why
> these are becoming part of the spec.?  Don't flame me
> or take this as a flame, I just really want to know
> why.

In short, to codify common practice.

This is similar to what was done with HTML [1].

Thanks,

Tantek

[1]
 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/intro.html#h-2.2.1

Received on Thursday, 8 March 2001 23:40:30 UTC