[Zope] Re: Color names

[Wolfram Kraus]

John Poltorak wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:32:26PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:43:12PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
>> 
>>> Where do I find a list of color names which Zope recognises?
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in core zope that knows 
>> anything about colors whatsoever.
> 
> 
> So when I specify something like 'red' for backgroundColor is this 
> simply a directive to the browser?
> 
> This begs the question - is there a standard set of names for colors 
> accepted by all browsers, or can PowderBlue mean one value on IE and 
> a different one on Mozilla?
> 
That has nothing to do with Zope, it is a HTML issue.
In HTML the following 16 color-names are defined:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5


HTH,
Wolfram