Re: [Image-SIG] Problems with XpmImagePlugin.py
by Douglas Bagnall other posts by this author
Jul 6 2004 1:36PM messages near this date
[Image-SIG] Problems with XpmImagePlugin.py
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[Image-SIG] I think I found a bug ...
Richard Oudkerk wrote:
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> (6) ImageColor.colormap misspells 'lightgray' as 'lightgrey'. (I
> assume this is a misspelling since it contains 'gray', 'dimgray',
> 'slategray',... but not 'grey', 'dimgrey', 'slategrey',...)
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AFAIK, this spelling mixture is very old and has snuck into many realms.
Netscape borrowed XPM colours for html extensions, whence, for a
while, they entered the CSS standard. The w3c now accepts either
spelling for any shade of grey, but I think X may be more conservative.
regards,
Douglas Bagnall
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