Re: [Netsurf-develop] Re: Tables

[James B. <bu...@us...>]

In message <4be...@sm...>
          Michael Drake <mi...@sm...> wrote:

> In article <ec6...@a7...>,
>    James Bursa <bu...@us...> wrote:
>
> > The colours are missing # from the start, eg. bgcolor="7F68B9" should
> > be bgcolor="#7F68B9".
> 
> I hadn't realised that the "#" was required.  The page certainly validates
> as HTML 4.01 Transitional, without the "#".  See:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.smoothartist.com%2Freddwarf%2F

I guess the validator doesn't check. The HTML 4 spec
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-color says

"A color value may either be a hexadecimal number (prefixed by a hash mark)
or one of the following sixteen color names."

So without the #, NetSurf tries to look the colour up as a named colour. I
guess we could 'fix' it if it's a common problem.

James