New subject: A simple question

5 May 2008

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  On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:34:58, Chris Howie
&lt;cdhowie(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

 On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Jonas Rand &lt;joeyyuan(a)cox.net&gt; wrote:
  Sometimes, the background of Wikipedia is grey,
and sometimes it is white
  (see http://jonasrand.110mb.com/images/Greywiki-screenshot.PNG and
  http://jonasrand.110mb.com/images/Whitewiki-screenshot.PNG). This is 
 both on
  Simple English Wikipedia (shown) and the regilar English Wikipedia. Can
  someone explain this phenomenon? 
 These links are dead.

 -- 
 Chris Howie
 http://www.chrishowie.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers 
The links were dead and refirected to the 404 page right after I uploaded 
them last night, but now they seem fine. It's odd that you seem to be the 
only one who doesn't see the images, it might just be your connection.

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  On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:46:37, James Farrar
&lt;james.farrar(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: 
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  2008/5/5 Majorly &lt;axel9891(a)googlemail.com&gt;om>:
  On 05/05/2008, Nathan &lt;nawrich(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

 Maybe I'm blind, but I'm not seeing a clear difference between the
 backgrounds on those two images.

 Nathan

  The first image has a grey background on the menu bar on the left, 
 whereas
  the second image has a white one. 
 It does? Count me in the "blind" camp... Are you looking at the
background of the page, or are you looking at the 
background of the "article" content? I'm talking about the background behind

the whole page.

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  On Mon, 5 May 2008 21:20:24, Usamah al-Amin
&lt;usamah1228(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
 This does not need be called a "phenomenon", nor a "blind camp" to
 explain it. :)

 Simply the gray colors comes from the CSS background declaration on
 the body element:

 background: #F9F9F9 url (headbg.jpg) no-repeat scroll 0pt 0pt;

 Sometimes. browsers fail to pick up every background image or CSS
 declaration, so you're left with the default white background color.

 If you're using Firefox, and Firebug installed, you can disable that
 CSS declaration and see the effect in real time.

 Regards,
 Usamah 
Thank you very much. That makes sense. 

Re: [WikiEN-l] A simple question