Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > -- > -ak > Tobu | http://www.lightbird.net/tobu/ | Freeform DB / Tagger / PIM > >
