On 30 Mar 2007, at 14:26:14, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> * Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
>> Incidentally, the "gray"/"grey" issue isn't helped by the fact that
>> Netscape Navigator had an extensive list of colour names, which
>> included both "gray" and "lightgrey" - the story I heard back in the
>> day was that an English developer had been involved in implementing
>> that bit of code, and automatically used the English spelling. As a
>> result, browsers nowadays support both "lightgrey" and "lightgray"
>> for backwards compatibility... although none of those extended colour
>> names appear in any formal spec relating to CSS, so that's OT.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color

Ah, there they are :-)

-- 
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/



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