- From: Jim Dabell <jim-www-style@jimdabell.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:47:08 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 8:17 pm, you wrote: > the red/green colour codes have been used to such an extent by the CSS > testing community that most CSS testers have developed instinctive > reactions to those colours, and changing them at this point would be a > greater usability hit. I did consider the established practices, but didn't know how widespread they were. I agree that if it's that well established it shouldn't be changed unnecessarily, as it isn't "real" content, however I think that it's unfortunate that the policy explicitly recommends the worst combination of colours. > This isn't a trivial problem. There are hundreds if not thousands of tests > already written that would have to be rewritten. I appreciate that, I was questioning the policy more than the actual tests. -- Jim Dabell
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