Re: CSS Validator complains about background-color -- but it's set! from Jukka K. Korpela on 2005-11-06 (www-validator-css@w3.org from November 2005)

From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 09:10:30 +0200 (EET)
To: Cyber Dog <cyberdog3k@gmail.com>
Cc: Aaron Gyes <floam@sh.nu>, www-validator-css@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0511060909010.11627@korppi.cs.tut.fi>

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Cyber Dog wrote:

> The short answer is, even though 'transparent' is valid css, the
> validator has been made to complain about it because a couple people
> feel its bad style to use it rather than a set color.

Roughly so; but
- read "valid" as "formally correct"
- read "complain" as "warn"
- read "feel" as "know"
- read "bad style" as "risky"

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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