On Tue, 25 May 1999, Graham Goring wrote: >Of course it'd be clean HTML, but I reckon on a white background as >opposed to the dreary grey...
DREARY GREY? <sigh> Configure your browser if you hate the colour. Most browsers let you change the background colour - it should only take ten seconds. Netscape Navigator *used* to have a default backgound *image*, but they removed that feature for some reason. The whole point of HTML was that it could be viewed by any browser, and that the user chose how it looked. People seem to want different settings for each site, but there's no reason why that's not possible - if settings haven't been chosen for a site, the browser could use your default options, until you click on a little button in the lower right corner, which sets your colours for the site to the site's default, for example. HTML was doing fairly well until Microsoft and Netscape screwed it up - as soon as you get commercial interest, you get splits in the standard. Netscape added some screwey frames support, and Microsoft added scrolling text and fonts. -- Stuart Brady
