Re: [css3-color] currentColor?

On Monday 2009-08-17 09:18 -0700, David Perrell wrote:
> Re: 'currentColor' color keyword.
> 
> Is this capitalization style used anywhere else in CSS? Seems odd. Color
> keywords are all lower case. The deprecated system colors have initial caps.

No, it's not, except in the other properties and values that were
introduced by the SVG specification, of which this is one.

(And SVG takes CSS and then uses its values as SVG attribute values,
case *sensitively*, so changing it to match the style of the rest of
CSS sort of "breaks" SVG.)

-David

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Received on Monday, 17 August 2009 16:31:02 UTC