Around March 12, 2000, Wiki started using
. It is preferable to leave out the bgColor tag, because Wiki can then default to the user's own color preferences. Is it possible to restore the old behavior? ''Perhaps this new behavior could be a user preferences thing invoked by cookies, with the default being no tag?'' -- ChanningWalton Technically it is a bug, in that if your browser has your text set to white and the background to black, Wiki's setting the background colour only will make the text disappear. Some people '''need''' their funny colours because of poor eyesight, poor laptop screens or whatever. -- DaveHarris ''Then they should set their browser preferences correctly. On Netscape 4: Edit->Preferences->Appearance/Colors, turn on: "Always use my colors, overriding document", and turn off "Use Windows colors". However, MSIE doesn't seem to have this capability.'' So is the problem that I set the bgcolor without setting all the other ones? [''Yes, this is indeed problematic. If you use one of these tags, you should set them all.''] Or is the problem some complicated heuristic some browsers use to choose colors? Or is that old gray really a preferred color? [''Not every browser defaults to a gray background (e.g. HotJava's default is white). Moreover, this default background color can be set by the user.''] I'm asking because I changed all the static html on c2.com in addition to the one line of wiki that emits the tag. I'll change them all again if I have to. I'd just like for them to be consistent. -- WardCunningham Well, I just fed the FrontPage through weblint, and I found the following problems: * There are no ... tags around the whole document. * You don't provide ALT=... tags for images. * There's a tag without matching