- From: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:58:15 +0100
- To: Krzysztof Maczyński <1981km@gmail.com>, "CSS 3 W3C Group" <www-style@w3.org>
> Dear CSS WG,
>
> Please don't deprecate CSS System Colors. The LC states they're going to
> be deprecated in favour of appearance. But if appearance isn't in a Rec by
> then (and this is most likely), then deprecation based on this suggested
> replacement will be utterly premature (which will hurt accessibility among
> others). Furthermore, I think the full-fledged styling of a native UI
> control the appearance property is going to provide will often be too
> wholesale or even outright inadequate for some purposes where CSS Systems
> Colors should be used (e.g. when the styled element is not a UI control at
> all; would you want the very paragraph from the spec example to start
> looking and behaving entirely like a window?).
>
I agree with you here. CSS System Colors don't have the same purpose as
appearance.
Maybe the deprecate text should be replaced by something like that :
" NOTE: If you want to emulate a UI control, please prefer the use of
the 'appearance' property defined in the CSS3 UI Module. "
Fremy
Received on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:58:59 UTC