Nice.

I also use the following URL as a quick conversion.  Of course, you can do
the conversion with the calculator that comes standard with Windows
Operating Systems, but this way I have a quick printout on the wall next to
my desk.

http://www.jaworski.com/htmlbook/dec-hex.htm


Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Luoma" <luomat(at)operamail.com>
To: "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: validating &153; (TM)


> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:22:45 -0500, Keith D Sellars <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yours is the most complete listing I've been able to see
> > since I've been looking.  The W3C site has a list of character entity
> > sets (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html), but it doesn't really
> > appear to be a complete list of everything that is available, unless
> > those are the only ones actually accepted.
> >
> > In any case, thanks.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> I compiled that list from several sources after being completely annoyed
at
> the lack of a comprehensive (or at least really extensive) listing in an
> easy-reference format.
>
> W3C was the major source material, yes.
>
>
> Oh, and if you think code references are hard to come by, try getting an
> official list of the colors (hex/rgb).  I made a listing at
>
> http://tntluoma.com/sidebars/triplecolors/
>
> based on
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/
>
> which refers to [X11COLORS] Robert B. Hess. Colors By Name. MSDN Online
Web
> Workshop. 02 November 1996. URL:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/design/color/x11_names.asp--BUT don't
> try to follow that URL because it's 404 (Microsoft just loves to move
stuff
> around all the time.  The new URL is
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/X11_names.asp
>
> but when you go there notice that it says:
>
> "The table below provides a list of the X11 colors supported by Microsoft
> Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator." (This is from November 22,
> 1996).
>
>
> So nowhere does it really give you as good of a list as I'd like.  I know
> there are many more supported colors than are shown on the triplecolors
> page, but I don't know what they all are, and since there is no official
> list, how could we say if a browser was ever wrong?
>
> Argh
>
> TjL
>
>
> --
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> 30 Days to Becoming an Opera Lover
> http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/
>

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