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Subject: 
White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 06:27:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
but I've been a bit hesitant to make widespread use of them without better
understanding customized color settings in web browsers.  I seem to recall
someone (I think it was Tom Stangl) once long ago fervently denouncing the
use of white text on web pages.

White text in graphics is ok, but white fonts are unprintable, and
that irritates some people alot.

Is white text always unprintable?  Whenever I print a page with text in a
table with its BGCOLOR set, it comes out great.

Workie:

   <TABLE ... BGCOLOR="#000000"><TR><TD>
     <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">foo foo foo</FONT>
   </TD></TR></TABLE>

No workie:

   <HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#000000">
   <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">foo foo foo</FONT>
   </BODY></HTML>

I'm sure it depends on the browser, but I think level-3 versions of NN & MSIE
both handle printing BGCOLOR in tables correctly.

--Todd



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  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) Either will work if you set your printer preferences to "black and white". You may have to do this through your browser and/or your dos/windows printer settings (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) I was thinking of the body bgcolor. I haddn't thought of the table bgcolor situation. KL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) I'm pretty sure anyone who prints out a web page deserves to be irritated. At a place I used to work, it was very common for the management types to hand you a stack of paper, saying "I came across this web site I thought you should see." (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: Blind to icons
 
(...) White text in graphics is ok, but white fonts are unprintable, and that irritates some people alot. KL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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