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Subject: 
White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
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



Message has 3 Replies:
  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 (27 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 (27 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." (...) (27 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 (27 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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