Hi webkit-dev,


I'm working on implementing the change described in CSSWG issue 3847 "Make 
system color keywords compute to themselves" in Blink and wanted to request a 
position statement from WebKit on this behavioral change.



Discussion: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3847

Spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#resolving-color-values

chromestatus.com entry: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5728029949034496



This is newly specified behavior for an existing web platform feature. 
Presently, the computed value of a CSS system color keyword can be the rgb 
value that the keyword maps to. However, this causes problems when a color 
keyword is inherited across elements with differing values for the color-scheme 
property.



For example, suppose we have an element with "color-scheme: light; color: 
MenuText". At computed-value time, the MenuText keyword will be mapped to an 
rgb value using the light color scheme. If that element has a child with 
"color-scheme: dark" and no specified value for "color", it will inherit the 
*rgb value*, which will not match the desired dark color-scheme on the child.



Instead, the parent element's computed value for color should be MenuText. The 
child will inherit the *keyword*, and at resolved-value time, the keyword is 
mapped to the rgb value using the dark color scheme.



Please let me know your thoughts and thanks for your consideration,



Kevin

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