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This feels like a full-circle back to Internet Explorer (v4 or v5?) in the late 90's where you could specify CSS rules in your HTML to match your styling to the
by sbarre 11y ago
This feels like a full-circle back to Internet Explorer (v4 or v5?) in the late 90's where you could specify CSS rules in your HTML to match your styling to the colours (panes, borders, scroll bars, headers, text, all of it) and fonts that users set in their Windows machine's control panel for the operating system window chrome.
We used those style rules extensively for our Intranet web apps (mod_perl y'all) to make them look more "native". And it worked, it was a big part of our wow factor when showing our stuff off.
I'm glad we're finally catching up to Microsoft on this. ;-)
- mixmastamyk 11y agoSystem colors have been around forever, I don't remember them being IE specific. If they were it wasn't for long. http://webdesign.about.com/od/colorcharts/l/blsystemcolors.htm http://webdesign.about.com/od/colorcharts/l/blsystemcolors.h... I always appreciate when they are used, so pages fit my OS theme.
- sbarre 11y agoAh well, my bad, I thought this was an IE-only thing but you appear to be correct, it looks like it was part of the CSS 2.1 spec. Check out an example here: http://www.iangraham.org/books/xhtml1/appd/update-23feb2000.html http://www.iangraham.org/books/xhtml1/appd/update-23feb2000.... At the time, it was Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, and we were building Intranet web apps for Windows users, so our target browser was pretty much only Internet Explorer. Mostly because of the more advanced JScript and XML processing capabilities, and eventually HTAs and early XMLHttpRequest support that came with IE6. Surprisingly we never got into ActiveX components. Even back then, they seemed like a bad idea... :)
- mixmastamyk 11y agoYep, that's the page I remember.