Comments on: New Firefox Extensions http://www.robinsblog.com/03182005/new-firefox-extensions/ Resources for Web Development Students Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:51:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Hucklesby http://www.robinsblog.com/03182005/new-firefox-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-11 David Hucklesby Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:07:31 +0000 http://www.robinsblog.com/?p=46#comment-11 Andrea Binello, the author of "Web Color Names", says of her Firefox extension: "It is a simple browser/selector for the 140 standard web color names." Your students should be aware that HTML/CSS2 defines only 17 color names as standard[1] - they should use RGB (red - green - blue) values for all the rest! (Use this extension to get those values. ;-)) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#value-def-color Note: "orange" has been added to the original 16 color names in CSS 2.1 Andrea Binello, the author of “Web Color Names”, says of her Firefox extension: “It is a simple browser/selector for the 140 standard web color names.”

Your students should be aware that HTML/CSS2 defines only 17 color names as standard[1] – they should use RGB (red – green – blue) values for all the rest! (Use this extension to get those values. ;-) )

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#value-def-color

Note: “orange” has been added to the original 16 color names in CSS 2.1

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