On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jesper Tverskov wrote:
>
> 2) Is it a bug for Mozilla/FireFox suddenly to require that we also 
> style the html element with background-color similar to the body 
> element? The Opera browser don't have this problem. In my opinion, the 
> body element must be the "top" element of the view port also when XHTML 
> is XML.

Firefox is correct here.

See the fourth paragraph of

   http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#q2 

Opera's rendering is a known bug.

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