From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19516 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: HTML weirdoes Date: 02 Dec 1998 16:32:23 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157853 12035 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07569 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:37:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA16573; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:34:38 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Dec 1998 16:34:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA04807 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:34:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wugate.wustl.edu (wugate.wustl.edu [128.252.120.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07494 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:33:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from nb22-pool-13.wustl.edu (ats@nb22-pool-14.wustl.edu [128.252.113.14]) by wugate.wustl.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10344; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:33:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by nb22-pool-13.wustl.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27273; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:32:25 -0600 Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "02 Dec 1998 17:24:02 -0500" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.42/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19516 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19516 >>>>> "K" == Karl Kleinpaste writes: K> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> How come so many people post HTML containing the following >> directive? 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. -- Alan Shutko - By consent of the corrupted Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.