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Was it that the backgrounds were gray, or that the default browser background was gray and no one set bg colors? I remember thinking the weirdest thing about IE
by far33d 19y ago
Was it that the backgrounds were gray, or that the default browser background was gray and no one set bg colors? I remember thinking the weirdest thing about IE when it came out (or was it another browser?) was that all the backgrounds were suddenly white.
- pg 19y agoThe default in the browser was gray. White looked wrong when browsers started to have that default, because the 0000ff blue links were too bright against it. Since then a lot of sites have grayed down their link color to compensate.
- far33d 19y agoIt was better than the early web trend to have awful tiled background images and unreadable text colors over it. But now, thanks to the power of myspace, the trend is back and you can see what surfing "homepages" was like in 1996.