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Bug 475979 - Websites expect white backgrounds, dark-themes break this
Websites expect white backgrounds, dark-themes break this
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126553
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
git master
Other Linux
: Normal blocker
: Ephy/XR
Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
: 482944 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-11 19:24 UTC by Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail)
Modified: 2007-12-28 14:16 UTC
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Description Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-09-11 19:24:15 UTC 
Some websites like http://www.ohloh.net/ expect the background of the website to be white, when using a dark theme this websites break and look ugly.

Would it make sense to make white the default background always? Or would that be against theme integration?
Comment 1 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-09-11 19:25:07 UTC 
Oh yes, and would it make sense to consider this a problem? because it's solvable via a custom stylesheet.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2007-09-11 20:02:37 UTC 
Have you tried unchecking "allow web pages to use their own colours" from the Prefs dialogue ?

Hardcoding white background is certainly incompatible with a11y.
Comment 3 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-09-11 23:37:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Have you tried unchecking "allow web pages to use their own colours" from the
> Prefs dialogue ?
> 
That makes it worse.

> Hardcoding white background is certainly incompatible with a11y.
> 
This was my doubt. In that case we would have to mark this as wontfix?
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2007-09-12 14:40:36 UTC 
Well it's annoying me very much too, so if I ever find the time I'd like to implement auto-contrast colours (like in xchat-gnome) for gecko. So let's keep this open a bit, but don't expect a fix soon :)
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-10-03 13:51:56 UTC 
*** Bug 482944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-10-03 13:53:23 UTC 
Duplicate Bug #482944 reported by Vincent Untz contains some information that may be useful for this.

"It turns out gecko has a setting to not use the system colors as default:
browser.display.use_system_colors

It should be possible to easily set this to false. Or maybe have a setting as
part of the gtkrc file in the theme, and epiphany would look for it there, so
it would automatically work for all themes."
Comment 7 Xan Lopez 2007-12-28 13:55:04 UTC 
This is a dup of bug 126553. Which way do you want it closed chpe? :)
Comment 8 Christian Persch 2007-12-28 14:16:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126553 ***