On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jamie wrote:
>GM> a) they were stuffed down our throats as a proprietary
>GM> hack by Khaled, who is a complete [fill in favorite
>GM> obscene expletive here]. I wish I still had my copy of
>GM> that email where he was just *lambasting* Olli for asking
>GM> a question about the color crap.
>
>Please send me a screenshot of your 2-colour B/W workbench that you
>obviously use since you sooo hate colour.
I did not say I "hate color" -- I said I think the color codes
introduced as a hack by Khaled Mardham-Bey in mIRC were very
poorly considered, badly implemented and VERY frequently abused.
And, as someone else pointed out -- I use color to code the
*type* of message coming through on IRC -- server messages and
the like that I consider of low priority are colored on my set up
to largely "blend away" against my background color; items of
importance are colored to stand out. This is a *USEFUL*
application of color, unlike the mIRC-derived color codes.
>Are you aware that it has been found that coloured text or
>background can assist the reading impaired?
...in which case the person so impaired needs to be able to set
the colors to what they find most legible and not have some silly
twit *changing* them for no particular reason.
Try reading for *content*, rather than for your own biases.
George
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