[Groff] grohtml background color

[Rick Richardson]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:37:42PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > The only visibile difference that I could detect between the current
> > version and the 1.17.2 version is that the current version overrides
> > the background color of the users web browser to be pure white.
> > That seems quite anti-social, but a topic for a different thread.
>   
> It isn't anti-social, it is the correct translation IMHO -- black ink
> on white paper.  Nevertheless, I agree that it would be better to
> have a command line option to grohtml to desactivate it.  Gaius?
>   
>    Werner

As promised, here is a thread for that discussion.

You think it is the correct translation because you happen to have
white paper in your printer.  People who choose to have canary paper
in their printer will say it is the wrong translation.

And so it is with web browsers.  People select their foreground and
background color preferences because they prefer to read text with
those colors.  The web page author, especially of a document, should
strive to respect those preferences.

The default for grohtml should be to use the default web browser
background color, and a new option should added to grohtml that will
allow you to force a background color.  I suggest --antisocial :-)

-Rick

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