Re: HTML rendering and colors

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>]

 ❦ 27 décembre 2013 09:03 CET, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> :

>>> It is not uncommon for me to receive mails difficult to read in
>>> HTML. I often get gray on gray texts. I am using shr as a
>>> renderer. It seems that there is some code in shr (I am using Emacs
>>> 24.3 and Gnus from git) that try to be clever on color pairs but
>>> either it does not work as expected or it is not enabled for me. How
>>> to troubleshoot this?
>>
>> I haven't seen any instances where shr has chosen colours that can't
>> be read.  Do you have an example message?
>
> I had the same problem with about any HTML mail.  The background was
> grey and the text was maybe a bit darker or lighter grey.  Possibly
> that's caused by using a light-on-dark emacs theme.  I'm using tsdh-dark
> which comes with emacs.

I am also using a light-on-dark theme (naquadah).

> Anyway, I could improve the situation with
>
>   (setq shr-color-visible-distance-min 10
>         shr-color-visible-luminance-min 60)

Those variables also helps in my case!
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