On Jun 5, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:

Well...

I'd say "may" or perhaps "may soon have"

That is from:

SVG Color 1.2, Part 2: Language
W3C Working Draft 

1.1 was also going to have <solidColor>  :-)

Oh, just to be clear...

Once things are set with 0.47 we'll be getting as much done here as possible. There is the GSoC project for color management and once the draft there hits the point where implementors are encouraged to move forward then we'll implement the named colors.