Clarence Verge wrote:
> 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.
The page links to the following CSS file:
http://www.mozilla.org/persistent-style.css
Need anything else? ;)
david
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