[css-color-adjust] It's a bit unfortunate that user stylesheets can't specify arbitrary colors.

[emilio]

I don't think this is enough of an issue to revert the resolution of #4915, but I don't think it was discussed there so I wanted to raise it just in case there's any case we hadn't thought about.

One of the nice things of the revert-based forced-colors is that user and user-agent stylesheets worked as-is. We fixed UA stylesheets to use system colors where they weren't doing so, so that's covered, but user stylesheets won't be able to specify arbitrary colors anymore.

I think most of the use cases that I could think of for having arbitrary colors in a user sheet if you're using forced-colors are either minor, covered by system colors, or spec issues (#5778).

But there are probably other use cases which I might have missed (I know lots of extensions inject user stylesheets, for example...), so I think it'd be worth a look from other WG/community members just in case.

[tabatkins]

If they're targetting a specific thing, user stylesheets can use forced-color-adjust: none and then use whatever colors they want; if they're spamming colors generally across the page so that that's not appropriate, uh, wouldn't they just change their forced colors to match that preference, then?

[css-meeting-bot]

The CSS Working Group just discussed [css-color-adjust] It's a bit unfortunate that user stylesheets can't specify arbitrary colors., and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Close no change

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<dael> Topic: [css-color-adjust] It's a bit unfortunate that user stylesheets can't specify arbitrary colors.
<dael> github: https://github.com//issues/5779
<dael> emilio: I don't htink it's huge. Came up when reviewing changes to forced colors. It's a bit unfortunate user colors stop working
<dael> emilio: I don't have a super great use case for user stylesheets spec arbitrary colors. I don't think it's huge but wanted to raise b/c it's weird.
<Rossen_> q?
<dael> fremy: I think we did consider it. You can spec any color and say forced color adjust none
<dael> emilio: Yeah
<dael> fremy: You want to do it anyway to disable backplate. You can say antying in stylesheet.
<fantasai> or stick to the forced colors palette
<dael> emilio: Would need to disable for everything but yeah. It's a different behavior. not a huge issue. Can disable forced-colors all together or change system colors to match what you want
<dael> Rossen_: Doesn't sound like there's anything ot resolve
<dael> emilio: Resolve no change
<dael> Rossen_: Objections:
<dael> RESOLVED: Close no change