Re: website: background color in css

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/15 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>:
> Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 14:55:09 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
>> 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.
>
> You can try to fit the most common cases: bright background and dark
> background.
>
> But you can't fit all use cases when you use absolute color as signifier.
>
> And to my (outdated) knowledge css isn't flexible enough to be able to say
> "color: alternate" or "color: emphasized" (as we can do in the shell).
>
> (that would be really flexible webdesign: first create a color scheme, then
> assign colors to different elements. But currently that only allows us to
> assign a color to <em>, but not to define a standardized color scheme as base
> which browsers can change in a clearly defined way which is compatible accross
> different websites.)
>

Yes, you either set all colors or set none, anything else is broken
(as is your web site).

Thanks

Michal