rawhide firefox and background colour of webpages (CSS broken?)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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 at 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
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