[WikiEN-l] A simple question

[xaosflux]

Do you have the link to the actual  page?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonas Rand" <joeyyuan at cox.net>
To: <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A simple question


>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:34:58, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Jonas Rand <joeyyuan at cox.net> 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.
>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 18:46:37, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/5 Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com>:
>>> On 05/05/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> 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.
>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 21:20:24, Usamah al-Amin <usamah1228 at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
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