John Coppens wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured
to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors
hurts my eyes.
But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? You can
of course set your own color in the preferences.
Again, FWIW, I _hate_ white backgrounds, and spend time with each program
to figure out how I can reprogram it to something more 'quiet'. Ever
wonder why legal pads are yellow(ish)?
Why not leave the page background undefined? Most browsers allow
selection of a default background color, don't they?
John
This is probably not a very good idea in practice because the site will
stand out as looking incredibly
ugly on linux where some browsers (don't remember which ones) will show
a very unsightly medium gray background
if no background is specified. Since vast majority of sites do specify a
background, to the user this
will look like the site is badly misdesigned. In windows browsers show
white background if none is
specified.
However, at least in Opera (the browser that I use most often),
you can specify your custom css style sheet to define your background
that will override default
background. FF probably has a setting somewhere that will let you do
this, too. AFAIK no browsers
let you set them to use some color if no background is set but will show
document's color if it is set -
but I could be wrong about this.
By the way, I'm the designer working with Rex on this.
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