Re: bgcolor: to use or not to use

by "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>

Date:	Fri, 10 May 2002 06:12:20 -0400
To:	"Bert" <bert(at)betterwebdesign.com.au>, "hwg basics" <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	hotmail swbell bert
	todo: View Thread, Original

There was a comment in the article referred to that suggested the users
would think the designer didn't know how to set colors or that the user
would be less likely to buy products from a black-on-gray page.

I would say the first is generally untrue, as the users must be experiencing
plenty of strange displays if they are browsing in NN3.  It would be likely
that they would begin to wonder what is wrong, or, if they had ever seen the
Web through a newer browser, that they would suspect what is wrong.

The second is a definite possibility.  If the sales warrant the attention,
then it's possible that a 2nd copy of the site might be needed.  I say
second copy instead of adding the fixes to the primary site because a) you
can still keep your code clean that way, and b) there's probably a lot more
than colors needing attention to fix the site for NN3!

:)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert" <bert(at)betterwebdesign.com.au>

David wrote:

> I use
> <.body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#990066"
> alink="#990066">

I use <body> these days, coupled with CSS to specify all the colours for
text, links, backgrounds etc etc.

I decided it's time I stopped worrying about dinosaurs that can't handle
CSS.   As someone else commented..  The default colours can be set in the
browser (by the user) anyway.  So if they insist on using legacy software
that doesn't support CSS, they can set the browser to suit themselves.

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