Cell's inheritance, color properties

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hi people…

I was trying to help someone in another forum and I had been surprised that firefox don’t inherit the color rule in table’s cells using the <col> tag. I reviewed my CSS book and it say that the color properties should inherit the value from the ancestor. look at the following example:

<table> 
<colgroup> 
<col class='col1'></col> 
<col></col> 
<col></col> 
</colgroup> 
 
<tr><td>A1</td> 
<td>B1</td> 
<td>C1</td></tr> 
 
<tr><td>A2</td> 
<td>B2</td> 
<td>C2</td></tr> 
 
<tr><td>A3</td> 
<td>B3</td> 
<td>C3</td></tr> 
</table> 
 
<style type='text/css'> 
table{ 
border-collapse:collapse; 
} 
 
td{ 
border:1px solid #000; 
width:50px; 
} 
 
col.col1{ 
color:#F00; 
} 
</style>

nevertheless, the previous style rules work well in IE. does someone know a confortable rule that work in both user agent (gecko and msie 6.0) without using other technologies like Javascript? any comment is welcome, thanks…