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(a)solution-forge.net> 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,
--
Nicolas Mailhot