From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: HTML weirdoes
Date: 02 Dec 1998 23:51:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig67bukvit.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alan Shutko's message of "02 Dec 1998 16:32:23 -0600"
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> K> Because the world has been using dark ink on light-colored paper
> K> for a few thousand years, and typical monitor contrast is really
> K> quite suckful?
>
> Then they should specify the dark ink too. Specifying just bgcolor
> is like upgrading all the chalkboards to dry-erase while leaving
> teachers with chalk.
Only the trouble is that the users don't "specify" that -- the "smart"
software does that for them, and it fucks up. :-(
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-02 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-02 0:29 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 1:13 ` Alan Shutko
1998-12-02 18:00 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-12-02 22:24 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-02 22:32 ` Alan Shutko
1998-12-02 22:51 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-12-03 13:28 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-12-02 23:05 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-03 11:41 ` William M. Perry
1998-12-03 15:00 ` William M. Perry
1998-12-04 1:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-04 14:33 ` William M. Perry
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