kevin.lyda at itg.ie wrote:
>> could someone explain this? in the main http://www.linux.ie/ page
> (as well as the others i think) there's this body tag:
>> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#C0C0DE" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B"
> ALINK="#FF0000" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"
> background="http://www.linux.ie/linback.jpg">
>> why is that background attribute there? http://www.linux.ie/linback.jpg> is a single (?) pixel image of the color #bfbee0 - why not just set
> the bgcolor attribute to that?
Because Different platforms will render the colours differently if
they're set using hex codes, & that's just with netscape.
Without forcing the page to load a pre-set (from an image) colour a page
will look completely different on a Mac than it will on a Winblows box &
different again on various Unix machines.
> in practice it makes netscape do this weird trace type thing and i doubt
> it efficiently stores this information.
well netscape is just bloat anyway so you'll kinda expect that, Try it
with Staroffice instead :)
Ray ...
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