- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:31:00 -0700
- To: Ben Ward <ben@ben-ward.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
This has been fixed for some time in our nightly builds and is not a
bug any longer. http://nightly.webkit.org/
dave
On Aug 10, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Ben Ward wrote:
>
> However, when using background-color:
> body {
> background-color: #0F0;
> background-color: #F00 #00F;
> }
>
> The background is set to red. Safari seems not treat space
> separated values as erroneous and just applies the first one
> (green). I experimented with using a syntax akin to font-size/line-
> height, but Safari still handles that (green). Now well off the
> topic of defining a useful syntax for a CSS spec, I did find that
> if you use a double forward-slash as the separator between colours
> (#F00//#00F) then Safari does ignore the style. No idea what's
> going on there. Perhaps that's one for Dave Hyatt if he still keeps
> up to date here.
>
> Anyway, I'm certainly not advocating ‘//’ as the separator based on
> one browser's quirk, but I did want to raise that point that a
> syntax which is ignored as invalid in current implementations may
> be preferable and make evolutionary adoption of this idea by
> authors easier.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
Received on Friday, 11 August 2006 00:31:06 UTC