Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well

Greetings folks,
Minor gripe: This morning there doesn't seem to be a background set on the PM pages; for me at any rate.
And I'm pretty sure that its because I use NetScape Navigator 4.79

I have a Sun 386i. I have an SGI Indy. And I have a 233mHz Linux box. I use NetScape, because its the best (or only) browser to work under these conditions.
And PerlMonks kinda looks like crap today.
I have to squint through the NetScape default background (grey) to greys and quite bright blues on top of it... Not to mention how daft the white backgrounded reply node TABLE's are...

Sure, I'm probably in the minority. But I bet whoever made this change can make it work for all users, and I'd really appreciate that - as I'm sure everyone using NetScape would also.

My thanks,
JP
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

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Re: Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Apr 07, 2002 at 17:31 UTC
Update: Dunno what has changed, if anything(?), but now it is only the frontpage that has this problem in Netscape. Matter of factly, the "problem" people has with the blue links and such seems to be due to the fact that the frontpage is missing some or all (depening on theme?) CSS. And it is only on the frontpage that I know of. (On a side note, I still think that it is funny that the META keywords for this site contains "xp whoring" among the others). Back to the regular show: Heh, you are right. When viewing in netscape, this part is missing from the HTML code: `<style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; } a:link { color: #000066 } a:visited { color: #333399 } </style>` [download] I have no idea why that is, but as a temporary solution, maybe you could set such things as custom CSS in your user settings? Not that it shouldn't be fixed, of course, IMO. :) You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well by Maclir (Curate) on Apr 08, 2002 at 00:30 UTC
The frontpage is not generaling a style sheet tag. Here is what I get for the source of the page HEAD section: <head> <title> Perl Monks - The Monastery Gates </title> <!-- No CSS Link in User Settings --> <!-- No CSS Data in User Settings --> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <meta name = "description" content = "A community committed to sharing Perl knowledge and coding tips. The site contains questions and answers, useful snippets, and a library of code." /> <meta name = "keywords" content = "perl, mod_perl, regular expressions, regexp, xp whoring, CGI, programming, learning, tutorials, questions, answers, examples, vroom, tim, node, experience, votes, code" /> </head> [download] All other pages (for me, at least) throw in the following: `<style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; } a:link { color: #006600 } a:visited { color: #666666 } </style>` [download] OK - who changed something in the underlying code, and can you back the changes out? For the record, I am using IE 6.0 with all the latest patches. It has a high level of CSS compliance.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well by belg4mit (Prior) on Apr 08, 2002 at 02:09 UTC
You need style sheets enabled. In Netscape this means you need JavaScript enabled (consider this long and hard before you wander around here with JavaScript enabled). This is because Netscape does not support CSS. PS> Funny, I actually have a personal style sheet to set the site to background-color: #c0#c0#c0 (#ccc just isn;t quite the same ;-) `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]
Re: Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well by ejf (Hermit) on Apr 07, 2002 at 17:46 UTC
There's something else different as well ... I'm using the green theme, and I got blue links on the Monastary Gates today (though not on the section pages) ... Looks funny. But not right ... Using Opera 6 here. (same on other tested browsers though). I'm taking screenshots, this goes up in the hall of fame (I woke up FAST today. :) update : it's fixed now, thanks :)	[reply]
Re: Alas poor BACKGROUND, I knew it well by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Apr 07, 2002 at 19:36 UTC
I'm getting the blue links on the green theme as well. I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 -- here's the rub, though: it's only on the initial load after a fresh start on the browser. Subsequent pages appear normally. Matt	[reply]
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