Brandon Frohs

Last night I was working with Consummo to build a client’s website and I ran into a stumbling block. CSS3 does not allow for colors to be declared alongside images (except as the last value). What does this mean? A website can have several background images, each with or without transparency, and a background color behind all of it. Personally, I assumed (you know what they say about assume) background colors could be defined on top of background images (in the same element), but I was wrong. In the CSS3 Candidate Recommendation, the background shorthand property can have a value as follows: [ <bg-layer> , ]* <final-bg-layer> where color can only be defined in the place of <final-bg-layer>.

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A while back, it was suggested that limiting links to anchor tags (a) should be avoided in HTML5. It was declined due to backward compatibility issues and also because it would be difficult to implement. Not only that, but no one could bring forward a test case where using a different tag as a link was necessary. Well, I believe I have found one, and I am curious as to whether anyone has a solution.

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