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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: khtml
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-03-21 20:47:28
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On Thursday 21 March 2002 21:22, Jelmer Feenstra wrote:
> Well, the browser window can be seen as an artistic environment, controlled
> by the webdesigner. The problem is that the webdesigner often doesn't
> realize there are folks who don't use the standard colorscheme (that comes
> with windows or kde). The result is that pages look completely unbalanced
> and artistically butt-ugly because of all the contrasting colors.

I respectfully disagree here. There are two types of HTML code: those that 
use only markup (like HOWTOs) and those that contain full layout.

The first should honour the color scheme (which current KHTML does) and the 
latter should override all colours properly in the HTML or CSS code (which 
KHTML supports). Pages that rely on the user to set a specific colour are 
broken by design.

That said, there are a lot of pages out there that indeed do so, which is why 
recently KHTML was patched for dark colour schemes. But that is something 
completely different from 'make KHTML ignore all the user's colour prefs and 
stubbornly insist on its own', which it IMO is.

> So all we need now is a toggle that can be set in konqueror's settings that
> tells khtml to always use the 'normal' colorscheme as default colors for
> html elements/text/background etc. Option 1 is already present in the form
> of userdefineable stylesheets, right ?

Yeah, although I am not sure if there is a decent GUI for it. And such a 
toggle will definitely be post-3.0 because it adds new strings.

Martijn
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