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

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

At 10:24 PM 6/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks Mike,
>
>I'm taking care of it.
this is kinda off the subject, but what's up with devel?  I keep getting a
"No data" error.

Mike
>
>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/
>> >
>