Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : blmblm Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 08:08 am In article , Chris Sonnack wrote: >Arthur J. O'Dwyer writes: > >> I use two varieties of Windows (2000 and >> XP), running MSIE, Firefox, and Netscape. On no combination of the above >> OSes and browsers have I ever seen a "Windows default of middle grey" as a >> background color to any Web page. The default is white (#FFFFFF) or black >> (#000000) depending on which color scheme you're using. > >In the olden days, that was Netscape's default in the absence of any of >the hated colorizing tags or attributes. > >Of course, back then, we only HAD those things.... In the very olden days (what, about ten years ago?), one was meant to use HTML to define the logical structure of one's document, with choice of background color and font size and other such things left to the user's browser -- i.e., under the user's control. How things have changed. (Based on the very small sample of Mr. Maas's Web pages I've looked at: At least it's nice clean simple HTML, which in these times is unusual but (IMO) a nice change.) (I can also say that I'm getting a whole new perspective from his posts on my own tendency to rant when things don't work with text browsers, or when people send me things in MS Office formats, or otherwise assume that all the world uses .) [ snip ] -- | B. L. Massingill | ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor. .