did you miss this one or decide it wasn't an improvement?
i do doubt that the existing default was the result of serious thought.
010308 Philip Webb wrote:
> the current debate re background colors is passing me by,
> but i would like to suggest an improved default offering in lynx.cfg .
> after some experimentation, i've been trying it for daily newspaper reading
> & find it gives a good balance of page effect vs readability of text.
> it should be equally effective with a white or black/blue default background,
> except for giving color `0' a white foreground in the latter case.
> it is doubtful whether the current offering was the result of much thought.
>
> --- /old/lynx.cfg Tue Feb 27 17:50:52 2001
> +++ /new/lynx.cfg Sun Mar 4 01:05:52 2001
> @@ -2784,15 +2635,14 @@
> #
> # Uncomment and change any of the compilation defaults.
> #
> -#COLOR:0:black:white
> -#COLOR:1:blue:white
> -#COLOR:2:yellow:blue
> -#COLOR:3:green:white
> -#COLOR:4:magenta:white
> -#COLOR:5:blue:white
> -#COLOR:6:red:white
> -#COLOR:7:magenta:cyan
> -
> +COLOR:0:black:default
> +COLOR:1:yellow:brightblue
> +COLOR:2:yellow:green
> +COLOR:3:green:default
> +COLOR:4:blue:default
> +COLOR:5:yellow:brightblue
> +COLOR:6:yellow:red
> +COLOR:7:red:default
>
> .h2 ASSUMED_COLOR
> # If built with a library that recognizes default colors, initializes it
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