CSS3 Color Closed Issues

Issues raised, resolved, and closed for CSS3 color.

2011-06-07 REC

These tasks were completed and issues were resolved and incorporated into the 2011-06-07 REC.

Tasks to 2011 PR

The CSS3 Color Module on its way to PR required the following tasks:

Update sRGB reference in Bibliography. See Issue 30 resolution.
- Chris Lilley (done)
Post Disposition of comments (done, at: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-color/issues-lc-2008.html )
- Chris Lilley
Get responses back from commentors (done)
Schedule directors call
- Chris Lilley
Obtain publication date for PR
- Chris Lilley
PR review form for AC representatives of W3C member organizations
- perhaps at http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/css3-color-PR/
- note PR Review Deadline for filling out that form
- Chris Lilley
Update PR Editor's draft with:
- link to actual disposition of comments (from above)
- link to actual PR review form (from above)
- actual PR Review Dealine - replace PR-REVIEW-DEADLINE-DD-MONTH-YYYY
- Tantek Çelik
arrange publication with webmaster
check against pubrules
- Chris Lilley
CSS3 Color PR is published!

The following were 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
Proposed Resolution: improve index
Status: editorial, spec edited to improve index

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
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0229.html
Further discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0230.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0841.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: resolved to make no change, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0169.html

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: draft sections renamed per above URL to “Basic color keywords” and “Extended color keywords”

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 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0451.html
Proposed Resolution: normative reference to SVG 1.1 simple alpha compositing
Status: spec edited

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: no change

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: spec edited

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: no change

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
Proposed Resolution: gamut clipping clarified to be to device gamut
Status: spec edited

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
Proposed Resolution: edit section 3 accordingly to remove redundant or tautological text
Status: spec edited - no more section 3.1.1

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 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0842.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0845.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0844.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0850.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0845.html
Proposed Resolution: no change
Status: no change

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: spec edited

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 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0848.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0849.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0054.html
Proposed Resolution: editorial, mostly accepted
Status: most issues edited. computed value of system colors split out into issue 28, since I think it's wrong. Case consistency of hex not addressed (not worth it). “something similar” comment not addressed (not worth it). Disagree about “lookup table” issue for 4.2.4. Disagree about system colors section nesting issue (don't want to change section numbers).

Issue 18

Summary: definition of interoperable should be changed
Raised by: marbux (in response to 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 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0169.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0173.html
Proposed Resolution: no change. ignore legal trolls, or rather, escalate them to W3C legal (which Daniel has done per http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0173.html) and let them sort it out. in the mean while, proceed with business as usual.
Status: no change.

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: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0023.html
Proposed resolution: no edit. existing definition section references CSS 2.1 definitions which defines deprecated that way.
Status: no edit needed.

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: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0023.html
Proposed Resolution: do so
Status: spec edited

Issue 22

Summary: don't deprecate system colors
Raised by: Krzysztof Maczyński
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0097.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0106.html
Proposed Resolution: editorial feedback accepted. request to not deprecate rejected.
Status: spec edited to re-use some of the “If you want to emulate ” wording suggested in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0106.html

Issue 23

Summary: Accept angle units and allow omission of % units in hsl()
Raised by: Ludger Buenger
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jul/0154.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jul/0155.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jul/0156.html
Proposed resolution: no change

Issue 24

Summary: Mac OS X changing gamma, recommendations obsolete
Raised by: Chris Murphy
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jul/0171.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0189.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0190.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0191.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0215.html
Resolution: section already removed to resolve issue 8
Status: spec edited

Issue 25

Summary: case of currentColor is odd
Raised by: David Perrell
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0313.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0314.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0341.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0342.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0355.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Aug/0384.html
Proposed Resolution: no change

Issue 26

Summary: add mechanism for migrating to being conformant to the part of the spec that says CSS colors are in sRGB
Raised by: David Baron, Beth Dakin
URL: minutes of F2F meeting, 2009-11-03 (have resolution)
Resolution: updated: do this in CSS4-color instead: “RESOLUTION: re-add a 'color-correction' property with the two values 'default' and 'srgb'”, “'default': what UA would do if the property weren't specified at all. That can change over time. (E.g., at the moment we (Safari/Webkit) don't do color managament at all. But we may do so in the future.)”, “'srgb': All colors are presumed to be defined in the sRGB color space unless a more precise embedded profile is specified within content data. For images that do have a profile built into their data, that profile is used. For images that do not have a profile, the sRGB profile is used so that the colors in these images can be kept “in synch” with the colors specified in CSS and HTML.”
Status: no edit in CSS3-color.

Issue 27

Summary: should depend on CSS 2.1 instead of css3-syntax and css3-values
Raised by: David Baron
Proposed Resolution: normative reference to CSS 2.1, informative to css3-syntax and css3-values
Status: spec edited

Issue 28

Summary: computed value of system colors should be a color, not the keyword itself
Raised by: David Baron
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0849.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0053.html
Proposed Resolution: just remove the note saying otherwise
Status: spec edited.

Issue 29

Summary: “predefined” doesn't make sense in context (used twice)
Raised by: David Baron
Proposed Resolution: change to 'color keyword'
Status: editorial, spec edited

Issue 30

Summary: sRGB reference needs to be updated, check other references too
Raised by: Chris Lilley
Reporters response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0070.html
Proposed Resolution: update them. Note: When I (Tantek) last asked Chris Lilley about what should we update the [SRGB] reference to, he said we should use the same reference as the latest SVG.

From http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/refs.html :

IEC 61966-2-1: 1999: Multimedia systems and equipment — Colour measurement and management — Part 2-1: Colour management — Default RGB colour space — sRGB, International Electrotechnical Commission, 1999. ISBN 2-8318-4989-6 as ammended by Amendment A1:2003. Available at http://webstore.iec.ch/webstore/webstore.nsf/artnum/025408 and at http://www.colour.org/tc8-05/Docs/colorspace/61966-2-1.pdf .

Where the first part of the text up to and including “sRGB,” (without the comma) links to: http://www.colour.org/tc8-05/Docs/colorspace/61966-2-1.pdf

Status: updated the shared bibliography for the CSS specs accordingly.

Issue 31

Summary: add CIE color specification to CSS3 color
Raised by: Alexis Shaw
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0313.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0330.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0341.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0341.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0462.html (then drifted off topic) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0853.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0857.html
Proposed Resolution: no change for CSS3, consider for later specification
Status: no change

Issue 32

Summary: HSL Tables
Raised by: Christoph Päper
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0312.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0076.html
Proposed Resolution: editorial change made
Status: edits done

Issue 33

Summary: light goldenrod yellow
Raised by: Christoph Päper
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0312.html
Reporter's response to resolution
Proposed Resolution: spec is correct, no change
Status: no change

Issue 34

Summary: transparent
Raised by: Christoph Päper
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0312.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0077.html
Proposed Resolution: no change in CSS3 Color
Status: no change

Issue 35

Summary: CIE colorimetry
Raised by: Etan Wexler
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0355.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Sep/0472.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0071.html
Reporter's response to resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0116.html
Proposed Resolution: edit references following guidance from Alan Robertson, Chair, CIE TC 1-57
Status: bibliographic references updated

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