Re: website: background color in css

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/15 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>:
> Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 01:42:19 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
>> (Not everyone likes reading text on a white background! It regularily
>> makes my eyes hurt. I wonder what morons created the myth that it would
>> be more ergonomic :-( )
>
> I currently read with a dark grey background, but when I have the option of
> black on dark grey or black on white, I prefer black on white.
>
> The problem is, that we can't easily avoid the black font color (except by
> using color for the text as I do for autoparsed static sites and my main
> website
> - http://1w6.org/rpg_logs/sskreszta/Sskreszta-log-notizen-2009-05-03.html
> - http://draketo.de/licht-lumo-light
>
> Both are readable with dark and white background, but the price to pay is that
> the font is colored - which some people might dislike.
>

You cannot make a site which has no background, has text color set,
and expect it to be readable. The default background color may be any
color, including the one you chose for some of your text.

Thanks

Michal