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Subject: Re: HTML foreground and background colors being the same... poll time!
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>>>>> "WMP" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

    WMP> Ok, so what should Emacs/W3 do if someone happens to lose so
    WMP> badly as to specify a background or foreground color without
    WMP> also specifying the other?

    WMP> We could:

    WMP> a) Do nothing (current practice) b) Infer the missing color
    WMP> by taking rgb(~r,~g,~b) c) Infer the color some other way?

How about choosing one color in a set of a few carefully chosen colors ?