Re: Invisible text

by "=?iso-8859-1?B?TGF1cmkgVuRpbg==?=" <optima(at)hot.ee>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:26:35 +0300
To:	"HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>, "Moe Rubenzahl" <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>
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Hello Moe,
This makes perfect sense.
I'm not quite sure about this as I'm not a CSS expert. However as far as I
know you can make a style sheet, specify the background color, text color,
link color etc. Then you should add the "!important" statement. It should
override *ANY* user settings and fix the problem. Not quite sure about this
one, but you might consider it as a alternative.
Be extremely careful that you DO NOT have any text on your page that may be
defined as invisible text by the search engines, they may remove your site
from the search results. Therefore you would lose many visitors.

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,
Lauri V�in
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-----Original Message-----
From: Moe Rubenzahl <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>
To: HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Date: 20. juuni 2000. a. 2:01
Subject: Invisible text


>Interesting. I received this message from a customer. I have never
>heard this suggested before but it seems to make sense. Opinions?
>__________________________________________________________________________
>>
>>To: webmaster(at)maxim-ic.com
>>Subject: invisible text on Maxim site
>>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:16:33 -0700
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>I noticed a problem on your Web site.  Much of its text is invisible on
some
>>systems, because its pages force a white background upon the browser, but
>>they don't specify a text color.  When a page leaves the text color
>>undefined, the operating system will draw the text using the default text
>>color.  That color might be white.  Windows ships with inverse video
(black
>>text on white background) as its default, but people can go into the
Control
>>Panel/Display/Appearance dialog and set up any color scheme they want.
>>
>>For example, try white window text on a dark blue background.  Much nicer
to
>>look at.  Or just select the "High contrast black" color scheme, if you
have
>>a recent version of Windows.  Then have a look at the site.  Currently,
the
>>text in the "Buy online" box is invisible, the product descriptions in the
>>search results are invisible, and this press release:
>>dbserv.maxim-ic.com/view_press_release.cfm?release_id=125 is invisible.
>>There are other scattered areas, like the fine print at the bottom of the
>>home page.
>>
>>If a page doesn't specify ANY colors, everything will work out fine,
because
>>the user's settings in the Control Panel will provide a scheme that works.
>>The problem here is that your page overrides the user's choice of a
>>background color, without doing anything about the user's text color.  So
we
>>can wind up with white text on a white background.  The solution is to add
>>the necessary text-color tag to the HTML (or to styles!).  If you're using
a
>>Web-page tool, there should be way to specify the text color for the whole
>>page or for styles.  If not, you can highlight the text and then set its
>>color. The resulting HTML should look something like:
>>
>><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
>>
>>It's the TEXT= "#000000" tag that's missing currently.  #000000 would set
>>the text to black, which I suppose is what you want.
>>
>>If you override the user's background color, you have to override the
>>foreground color too.  There's no way to know the user's color settings,
so
>>the only way to prevent conflicts is to override them completely or not at
>>all.
>
>
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