Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/21/06 08:55

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> The color descriptions saddlebrown and rosybrown are also Microsoft only.

No they're not. They're names taken from the X11 (UNIX) colour system.

Netscape, who invented the <FONT> element and most of the early
presentational HTML (much of which found its way into the HTML 3 and HTML
4 standards), based its colours on the X11 system. This has about 140
named colours.

This colour scheme was picked up by all the major browsers, though it has
taken quite some time to make its way into any official web standards (SVG
1.0, CSS 3.0). (Note that these standards also added grey as a synonym for
gray, including all its variants -- dimgrey, lightgrey, etc.)

So while it is non-standard and supported by Microsoft's web browser, it
is *not* Microsoft only, and was not even invented by Microsoft.

If anyone needs to look up any X11 colour values, then may I humbly offer
up:

http://buzzword.org.uk/colours/

which is a colour calculator for blending multiple colours. It will
accept, and can return X11 named colours.

> bordercolor and bordercolorlight are Microsoft only attributes.

That is true I believe. Certainly they're not part of any standard.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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