> Le lundi 31 janvier 2005 à 11:32 +0000, Nigel Metheringham a écrit : >> 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. > > All my browsers have a light yellow/orangish default background - very > light on the eyes and very good for spotting broken websites (ie not > sites that let you use custom colors but sites that assume browser > settings - for example when some frames specify white background and > others forget about it). > > This should be mandatory in any web shop IMHO - but even big sites are > often broken this way. > > Regards, Yes. But it isn't mandatory. They are broken, but they only look broken in firefox@fc3 - so people believe that firefox is broken. And yes, i do also remember that Mosaic had a gray background. 10 years ago. So, please, please set the *default* settings so that most pages doesn't look broken.
