text selection consistency

David Faure dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Sat Sep 27 23:13:12 BST 2003


On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:32, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> I'm a web developer.  There are many cases where low-contrast fields are very 
> desirable.  Examples include:
>   - Copyright and credits fields
>   - Other less-important content
>   - Fields for consumption by search engines
>   - Crappy competitive sites that I don't *want* anyone to read
> 
> If a designer sets the text color to #efefef, its because they *want* it to be 
> #efefef, and not #ffffff.  Either the designer
> 	 A) he knows what he's doing, or
> 	 B) is clueless.  
> 
> Right now, those who know what they are doing are rewarded with pages that 
> look like they designed; those who don't get what they ask for.  If you 
> implement this 'fix', those who know what they are doing will need to use 
> javascript to detect the Konqueror web browser and version to compensate for 
> the color fix.
> 
> In sum, please don't make this a default behavior!

But we're talking about selection color, not about the color the text is
initially showed in - for that one we respect what the webpage says, of course!

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions




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