On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:15:46 -0600, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Clarence Verge wrote:

>> The default colors for those in Arachne may be quite different depending
>> on which color format you selected and/or what changes you made.
>> Also, there is this thing called CSS (Crappy Style Shit) that makes
>> CSS links a truly shitty color usually, unless you turn it off and make
>> your own link color choice override.

>> Regardless, you will always have a problem someplace. Set your links
>> to blue and you will find a site that imposes a blue backgrond on you.

> Here's where I'll have to disagree. The person(s) who coded the mozilla.org 
page
> used a CSS for the page's style. For example, the bright yellow (the bgcolor 
of
> the main content areas, such as the content starting "Developer Day...") came
> from
> Arachne incorrectly interpreting the following:

> ..contentcell {
> background-color: #FFF;

> The reasoning behind this format, as seen in the .css file itself, is as
> follows:

> /* use colors of the form #rgb instead of #rrggbb  since this discourages
> * web-unsafe colors. Web-safe colors are of the form #rgb where
> * values of r, g and b are one of {0,3,6,9,C,F}.
> */

Hmmm. That certainly explains yellow. 
Arachne would take FF (red) + Fx (green) + garbage and call it yellow.
I see that CSS colors will have to be converted to #X0X0X0 before
Arachne uses them in the normal manner.
Where is this .CSS file ? There is nothing like that in sample.css.

> david

> --

> "None is so rich as to throw away a friend."

> -- Turkish proverb

Hmmm. Getting too difficult to argue with. ;-)

- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....

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