• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Interesting story and useful safety message, but awful web page design. Who puts white text on a nearly-white speckled background?

    Edit: Turns out this isn’t the fault of the webpage, other than the choice of background. Text is perfectly readable in Light Mode on Firefox Desktop and Mobile.

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      8 months ago

      That’s the early internet for ya 😎. I agree it’s bad by today’s standards, but these kind of pages have such a strong nostalgic quality for me. I just wish modern pages loaded in a femtosecond like this one did.

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      8 months ago

      Who puts white text on a nearly-white speckled background?

      Huh? Your browser may be in dark mode or something. Text color is explicitly set to black in the markup.

      For the uninitiated, this was pretty typical personal web design from 1997-1999 or so. But the background doesn’t tessellate, and makes the text hard to read in any color, which makes it pretty poor example.