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

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Thanks Mike,

I'm taking care of it.

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:52:33PM -0500, Michael Viron wrote:
> Received this in my e-mail
> 
> >Return-Path: <cameron@research.canon.com.au>
> >Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:55:20 +0000
> >Subject: a technical remark about your WWW page <http://www.linuxkb.org/> ...
> >X-Original-To: mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu
> >From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
> >Reply-To: cs@zip.com.au
> >Errors-To: cs@zip.com.au
> >Return-Receipt-To: cs@zip.com.au
> >Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia, Sydney, Oz
> >To: mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu
> >Sender: cameron@research.canon.com.au
> >
> >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/
> >