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[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

X11.

One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of "Gray" and its variants. In HTML, "Gray" is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray). However, in X11, "gray" was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%), which is close to W3C "Silver" at 192 (75.3%), and had "Light Gray" at 211 (83%) and "Dark Gray" at 169 (66%) counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces "Dark Gray" as a significantly lighter tone than plain "Gray", because "Dark Gray" was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1 – while "Gray" was descended from HTML. Even in the current draft for CSS 4.0, dark gray continues to be a lighter shade than gray. Some browsers such as Netscape Navigator insisted on an "a" in any "Gray" except for "Light Grey".

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

"Gray" with an A looks so wrong to my eyes. I don't think I ever see it used normally.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Grey if it's in England, gray if it's in America."

Same as tire vs tyre, center vs centre and so on.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I am an American living in America, still looks weird.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

I knew it'd be something like that. Don't try to fix it, would be my advice. BTW my rgb.txt seems to have 2 entries for every tone of grey resp. gray.

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