Remember to specify a background colour
(456 Berea Street)Jeffrey Zeldman recently posted Is your (website�s) underwear showing?, which is a reminder about one of my pet peeves � websites that don�t specify a background colour but have a design that relies on all browsers having a white background. When the browser background is set to something other than white, some sites look really� interesting :-).
This has been happening since forever. Back in the late 1990�s those of us who used Netscape on Macs saw a lot of it since Netscape on the Mac had a grey default background colour while Windows browsers used white. And back then �nobody� checked their sites on a Mac.
In case you don�t feel like changing the default background colour of your web browser but still want to see how strange sites can look, check out the Flickr pool...
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