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Grey was the default browser background color. Folks forget this but browsers defaulted to grey as the background color. As such, you needed the hyperlink colo
by tiffanyh 5y ago
Grey was the default browser background color.
Folks forget this but browsers defaulted to grey as the background color. As such, you needed the hyperlink color to provide enough contrast to grey.
Examples of early Internet websites.
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- toastal 5y agoThis still causes issues for me from time to time with a dark GTK theme + Firefox on Linux. Developers like to set the default color to something like #222 and leaving the background as default, or unreadable black on black. Mozilla also still lets you set different defaults if you want. People shouldn't assume a default background color and if you want white, set it to white.