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css3-color issues list

The css3-color specification defines color values and color-related properties.

Current Issues

The following are known problems in the 21 July 2008 css3-color Last Call Working Draft.

See the released and development versions of the test suite for the “Tests” references.

Issue 1

Summary
css3-color should have a useful index or it should be removed
Raised by
David Baron
URL
N/A
Resolution
Status
editorial

Issue 2

Summary
restructure TOC
Raised by
Christolph Päper
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0405.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0443.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0182.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0013.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0019.html
Proposed Resolution 1
no change, to preserve section number stability
Proposed Resolution 2
similar to what is proposed, but moving the gamma correction section (probably modified, per later issue) into the beginning of Color Units, and perhaps putting the units before the values
Status
needs discussionneeds discussion

Issue 3

Summary
rename sections giving color keywords
Raised by
various
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0146.html
Proposed Resolution
Probably rename, given the confusion this has caused
Status

Issue 4

Summary
report of browser bugs from test suite
Raised by
Paul Tykodi
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0023.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0029.html
Proposed Resolution
not a spec issue
Status
not a spec issue

Issue 5

Summary
still confused about interaction of opacity and rgba()
Raised by
Matt Bonner
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0024.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 6

Summary
opacity should only apply to in-flow children, and shouldn't create a stacking context
Raised by
Andrew Fedoniuk
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0139.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0142.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0145.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0166.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0167.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0168.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0170.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0173.html
Note
same as issue 20 on previous issues list
Proposed Resolution
no change
Status

Issue 7

Summary
ICC features shouldn't be removed
Raised by
Chris Murphy
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0184.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0189.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0191.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0205.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0208.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0225.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0230.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0241.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0258.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0259.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0278.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0281.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0072.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0269.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0270.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0147.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0148.html
Proposed Resolution
no change
Status

Issue 8

Summary
Gamma correction section is out of date
Raised by
Chris Murphy
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0185.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0229.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0459.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 9

Summary
opacity relative to multiple ancestors
Raised by
Marshal Horn
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0409.html
Proposed Resolution
reject all new features (and not sure what this one means, either)
Status

Issue 10

Summary
presentation of HTML4 keywords and SVG keywords is inconsistent
Raised by
David Perrell
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0457.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0462.html
Proposed Resolution
change HTML4 table to look like SVG Table
Status

Issue 11

Summary
include HSL values in color tables
Raised by
David Perrell
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0457.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0462.html
Proposed Resolution
no change, since they wouldn't be exact matches due to rounding issues, and then there would be ambiguity
Status

Issue 12

Summary
does HSL get mapped to the sRGB color space
Raised by
David Perrell
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0458.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0461.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0463.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0468.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0472.html
Proposed Resolution 1
no change (question already answered in spec)
Proposed Resolution 2
add a statement with “must” in it to state the equivalence as a conformance requirement
Status

Issue 13

Summary
remove paragraph about clipping values outside gamut
Raised by
Chris Murphy
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0459.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0460.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0464.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0465.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0466.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 14

Summary
unnecessary tautology
Raised by
Dave Singer
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0467.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0469.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 15

Summary
Is HSL full range or video range?
Raised by
Dave Singer
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0467.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 16

Summary
currentColor should not be treated as color:inherit at parse time (and color:inherit should have a space in it)
Raised by
Krzysztof Maczyński
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0539.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0540.html
Note
same as issue 17 on previous issues list, due to insufficient editing the previous time around
Proposed Resolution
do the additional edits to match the previous resolution
Status

Issue 17

Summary
long list of editorial comments from XSL FO SG (excluding comment on status section, which is the next issue)
Raised by
Tony Graham
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0004.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 18

Summary
definition of interoperable should be changed
Raised by
Tony Graham
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0004.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0006.html
Resolution
Status

Issue 19

Summary
statement about advantages of HSL to RGB should not pretend to be exhaustive
Raised by
Dave Singer
URL
private email to dbaron, 2008-07-28
Proposed Resolution
editorial, edit to add “Some” before “advantages”.
Status
spec edited

Issue 20

Summary
need to define deprecated in a way that still requires UAs to support them (and thus need conformance requirements!)
Raised by
Rich Schwerdtfeger
URL
minutes of CSS meeting, 2008-10-20, morning session

Issue 21

Summary
note pointing to appearance property should link to it
Raised by
Steve Zilles
URL
minutes of CSS meeting, 2008-10-20, morning session