Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:55:14 12/08/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 01:39:43, David Rasmussen wrote: >On December 08, 2000 at 01:11:41, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On December 07, 2000 at 23:26:52, Tim Mirabile wrote: >> >>>Here is a list of colors from the so-called "browser safe palette": >>> >>>http://www.icdchess.com/color.html >>> >>>As you can see, a lot of them are unreadable, difficult to distinguish from >>>black in this font, or just look pukey or muddy. >>> >>>If too many people dislike the colors, we can go back to all black, or maybe >>>just find a couple of good colors we can all live with, and not use so many >>>different levels of color. We probably should avoid the blue and violet link >>>colors for obvious reasons. >>> >>>I may also be able to offer various color options customizable by each user (as >>>well as other viewing and filtering options), by using cookies (gasp!), or >>>possibly by storing settings for each user on the server. But these ideas would >>>have to wait for a different time of year. >> >>1) Black was OK. >> >>2) The light green sucks. Anything is better except light anything or flaming >>red. >> >>I think that if we're going to do this by consensus we are doomed, since nobody >>will like the same thing. I just want to be able to read stuff and not end up >>having to stop reading CCC because I can't see the stuff anymore, and I don't >>want CCC to become an amazing configuration nightmare. >> >>Please get rid of the light green. >> >>bruce > >I would agree with that. The problem is that the green is not too different from >the black. The colors on deja.com's news feed are OK, I think, even if it is >black for the main text, brownish/redish green for the second level and red for >the third. So of course we now get blood read. The *point* of the other colors is that they are not that different from black. bruce
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