css3-color issues list

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

Current Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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