From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Sun Apr 09 03:45:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25861 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2000 10:45:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 Apr 2000 10:45:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 9 Apr 2000 10:45:56 -0000 Received: from bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (engun11.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.145]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21737 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:47:57 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <38F05F9A.5F7694E0@bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:46:50 +0300 Organization: Bilkent University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban list Subject: HTML [was Re: [lojban] A wide variety of comments...] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-From: Robin Turner From: Robin Turner Christopher Reid Palmer wrote: > > From: Christopher Reid Palmer > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Note that it's not my picture. Also, if the background is grey, that's > > your browser's problem. I didn't define any colors anywhere in the > > document at all. > > It doesn't matter whose picture it is. lojban is at least somewhat a > community effort, right? No, it's not my browser's problem. My browser > does what HTML tells it to do (well, in a perfect world, anyway...). Yes, but if HTML doesn't tell it to do anything, it will use its default fonts, colours etc. My Lojban course is the same - I wrote it in minimal HTML so that people can easily have it look the way they want it to. I'm thinking of using style sheets at some point (so that, for example, Lojban text can come out in a different font rather than being italicised, which looks yucky on some browsers) but I reckon I'd better finish writing the damn thing first (BTW, I've just returned to the task, and have nearly finished Lesson 10). To change default colours and fonts, go to "Edit" -> "Preferences" (or whatever your particular browser uses). Some people object violently to documents specifying things like background colours (though I regard this as equally misguided, since they can always set their browsers to over-ride them). The only thing I find really objectionable is non-standard HTML tags (like those horrible Microsoft "smart" quotes) but then I used to be guilty of that myself not so long ago. co'o mi'e robin.