Sue Campbell wrote: >As the webmaster, I probably should have stepped in earlier on this >discussion. As was stated earlier, this was discussed a while ago >and the majority asked for white. Just so there is no accusations >of bias, I'll mention that I find the pure white background distracting.
Hmm... I haven't followed the discussion much, but why do you need to specify a background at all? Shouldn't it be up to the _reader_ to configure his browser for his preferred colour set? On the WWW pages I write, I usually set colours only when there's a specific need for them (which is rare). In any case, remember that if you specify one colour in <BODY>, you have to specify them all (BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, VLINK, ALINK). Otherwise people with non-default browser settings get suboptimal colours (e.g. if someone sets his browser's default colours to white-on-black, and you set BGCOLOR to white, the text ends up as white-on-white...). (Side note: I noticed that the SGI Indy workstations at my university use grey90 as the default background colour for xterms and Emacsen. I suspect this is a default chosen by SGI, and probably not chosen lightly.) [I don't read debian-www, so mail me directly if you want to reach me.] -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
