Probs with background color

[Michael Reagan]

I see similar differences between the super VGA display at work and 
the crummy VGA display at home, although I would describe the colors 
as mottled rather than tartan.  I suspect it is a matter of a 16 color 
display dithering a color outside its palette.  It may be worthwhile 
to test your background on the crummiest display available and 
standardize on something that looks OK there.

For my own part, pages I create leave the background choice in the 
user's hands, both for compatibility across various browsers and to 
avoid excess overhead (as in transmitting "wallpaper" background 
patterns).

I see it as an application of Ranganathan's fourth law of library 
science, "Save the time of the Reader."

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