Re: [css3-color] Don't deprecate CSS System Colors

> 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