On 14 Mar 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote:

> I invited you to formulate a patch if you thought it so easy;...
> Either trust me that it's not as trivial as you think, or prove
> otherwise by implementing it.

I'm quite happy to accept your word that it's non-trivial, especially 
to bolt on retrospectively. Nothing about a web browser is going to be 
trivial. I merely observed that on the face of it, it would not appear 
to be a difficult problem.

What I am saying is that implementing basic html should be a starting 
point, not something you think about afterwards, simply because there 
are so many sites out there that use it and which render adequately 
with all other browsers in that respect. Compatibility problems arise 
when background colours are specified in html and foreground colours 
in CSS, or vice-versa. Netsurf seems to guarantee problems for any 
straight html site with a dark background colour or image.

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