- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:02:31 +0100
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, HTML WG <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>
Steven Pemberton wrote: > Congratulations on an excellent specification. Many of the new facilities > will be extremely useful. > > With one exception. > > The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at > birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design > of CSS. They are added to CSS merely to codify current practice. Almost every browser supports them, and that isn't going to change (because it would break many sites -- these colours have even been spotted in use on W3C test suites). Adding the exact list that is implemented by the majority of browsers gives authors something to refer to. -- Ian Hickson ``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13
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