On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:15:51PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > 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. There are other web browser people who tried things like defaulting to black backgrounds. Its a useful exercise in pedantry but the reality IMHO is that the web is as good as specified to have "slightly off white" as the default background.