a technical remark about your WWW page <http://www.linuxkb.org/> ...

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

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>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:55:20 +0000
>Subject: a technical remark about your WWW page <http://www.linuxkb.org/> ...
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>From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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>This is a semiautomatic message.
>
>You seem to be the contact address for the page:
>    http://www.linuxkb.org/
>If you're not, please forward this to whoever may be.
>
>The page <http://www.linuxkb.org/> is unreadable on some browsers.
>This is easy to fix.
>It is likely that other pages on your site are similarly affected.
>
>An image of the page as it is rendered here is available at:
>
>
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/tmp/winsnap/4cb63fc8ca3e782ea0648010f666deaa.gif
>
>If you set a background colour or supply a background image for your page,
>please ensure that you also set foreground colours for the text and links so
>that people who don't happen to use _your_ text colour are guaranteed a
>useful contrasting colour.
>
>Remember, there are folks out there (like me) whose default environment
>uses light text on a dark background. If you override only one of these
>in your document, the other setting comes from the reader's default.
>This mix is unpredictable, and usually bad if the reader and the
>author come from differing light-on-dark and dark-on-light environments.
>Thus, if you override the one you should override the other, too. A
>useful colour is probably your own default colour, since you will have
>checked the page's appearance using it.
>
>This is not a fault with light background or light text, just their
>combination. When a reader visits your page, if you set neither the
>text colour nor the background they will get readable text since they
>will have a usable set of defaults. If you set both, they should get
>readable text because you will have selected a contrasting pair of
>colours. HOWEVER, if you set just one (many authors set a background
>and forget the foreground) there is no guarantee of contrast because
>you have selected one of the colours, and the reader has selected the
>other, entirely independently. As a consequence, if you set one you
>incur a responsibility to set the other to maintain contrast.
>
>Details may be found at:
>	http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/index.html
>Note in particular the bit on "HOW TO CONTROL THE DOCUMENT'S FOREGROUND".
>The attributes you need to set in the <BODY...> tag are TEXT, LINK, VLINK,
>and ALINK.
>--
>Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>