[arachne] Re: Color rendering makes some links & text nearly invisible
From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:25:47 -0400
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Hi John,
I am running on a 486 w/24mb RAM
I run Arachne on a RAM drive completely. Using
DOS from W$doze 95. DOS only, no W$doze.
I use a default setup of glennmcc's latest
disribution A190JG.
You can set CSS on the options page, opt_misc.ah,
which you can get by hotkey "O".
Eric
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:05:10 -0400 "John Hupp" <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Eric,
>
> Thanks for responding. That's very interesting. Several others
> replied
> that the problem was due to Arachne not yet properly supporting some
> aspect
> of CSS's. But here you are reporting no problem with that page and
> site.
>
> (By the way, to the others: How do I turn off CSS support to read a
> problematic page?)
>
> Are you running Arachne in pure DOS or under Windows? If DOS, which
> one?
> If Windows, which version, and within a Windows DOS window or in
> pure DOS
> mode?
>
> What video card or onboard video chip do you have? What video setup
> in
> Arachne (e.g. VGA - VESA - 800x600 1MB HiColor)? Any special
> selections in
> Performance and Preferences?
>
> --John Hupp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric S. Emerson
> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:11 PM
> Subject: [arachne] Re: Color rendering makes some links & text
> nearly
> invisible
>
> Hi John,
> If you press "O" hotkey for the Options
> page and goto Perform. & Prefer. page then you
> can change the colors to your liking. When I
> clicked on the link in your email I get a page
> with a light background and blue links which
> is very easy to read. Sometimes I press F4
> and remove the background color from
> the page source, but I had no need to do
> that with F-prot page.
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:41:46 -0400 "John Hupp"
> <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > I was browsing www.f-prot.com with Arachne, on a mission to
> download
> > F-PROT
> > for DOS. But the hyperlinks there were all nearly invisible. On
> my
> > Windows
> > machine the links appear as light blue text on a white background
> > (not
> > underlined). In the Arachne machine I have a 1 MB Diamond Stealth
> > video
> > card, and in the VGA setup Arachne detects VESA support. I chose
> > VESA mode
> > 800x600 with 1 MB HiColor. When I click Try the Selected
> Settings,
> > setup
> > does not complain and does give me 800x600, and I assume 15- or
> > 16-bit
> > color.
> >
> > If I am getting 15- or 16-bit color I would assume that it would
> > render
> > light-blue-on-white well enough.
> >
> > In any case, is there any setting I can choose to help with that
> > kind of
> > contrast problem?
> >
> > More info: In Options | Preferences and Performance, I have
> selected
> > System
> > Colors: Feel Windoze. Everything else there is still at the
> > default.
> >
> > --John Hupp
>
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