On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:15 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Background color on several webpages (phpBB forums f.ex.) are now > > grayish. Not white (?) as they should be, judging from the white > > "border" around buttons. > > Those web pages are broken. They assume that the default background > colour the browser chooses is white. This assumption does not hold. > If they want a white background they have to say so. This is an interesting development, since early web browsers always used to render the default background as a grey colour - I remember seeing this in Mosaic, the NeXTstep browser (can't remember its name) and early Netscape. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
