Re: please comment on text color

I previously was looking at the page in Netscape 4.5 (Mac), where the 
blue type was difficult to distinguish from the black background 
unless the viewing room was dark.

On my system, when I view the page with IE 4.5 (Mac), the text is a 
little more easily read than in Netscape, mostly because it's a 
little bigger in IE. Also, the javascript rollover effects appear in 
IE but does not appear in Netscape.


When dealing with borderline situations, keep in mind that there are 
intrinsic browser differences, plus differences due to changes (a 
few) users make in defaults, plus platform differences. 
HTML-generated text is generally smaller on a Mac than on a PC. You 
may want to take into consideration some of these differences and 
allow a margin. I know that compromises your design, but that's the 
tradeoff.

--Jeff






>Hi,
>
>I first looked at the site in Netscape, using a 800x600 resolution.....the
>text was 'barely' readable.    I could not even see any difference between
>the links that Lonna mentioned were a darker colour.  The text in the menu
>was not by any means easy to read in my opinion.
>
>However, when I looked at the site in IE, there was a huge difference.   In
>Netscape, the font appeared as Times New Roman, while in IE, it was much
>larger and looked more like an Arial type font.   I could also see it was a
>brighter blue than in Netscape (although my eyes would prefer it to be
>larger or brighter still).   I suspect your coding is only geared to IE.
>Please have a look at it in Netscape.   If you can't, I would be happy to
>forward you a screen capture so you can see it as I do ?
>
>Overall, the site was far more attractive in IE.
>Hope this helps...
>
>Heather
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Mailcoyote(at)aol.com>
>To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: June 28, 1999 10:15 PM
>Subject: please comment on text color
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the past two days I've gotten five complaints about the color of the
>text
> > on one of my pages (nobody's complained in the three months before this).
> >
> > Could you please take a look at:
> >
> > http://www.silverfantasy.com
> >
> > and tell me if the blue text is 'totally unreadable' as one of my visitors
> > stated today?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Debbie Campbell
> > Coyote Creek Multimedia Design
> >

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