On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:35:44 -0600, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
I'll answer that if I may. ;-)
Nope, don't need anything else.
That's all I needed to confirm that RGB is the problem.
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/noimages.gif
(http://www.mozilla.org/ before loading images)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/rgb.gif
(http://www.mozilla.org/ after loading images nut before editing the .CSS)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/rrggbb.gif
(http://www.mozilla.org/ after loading images and after editing the .CSS
so that all colors are in "rrggbb" format)
Now,
If we can just figure-out a way for Arachne to
understand BOTH "rrggbb" AND "rgb". ;-)
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