www/171953: Pipermail creates HTML pages that have the the body colors set WRONGly

Tue Sep 25 16:20:09 UTC 2012

>Number:         171953
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       Pipermail creates HTML pages that have the the body colors set WRONGly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 25 16:20:08 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     deeptech71
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>Description:
For example, the web page http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-September/date.html contains the following HTML source:
    <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
That is, the web page specifies a background color without specifying a foreground color. This fucks with my default settings of "cyan text on black background": the said web page gets displayed as "cyan text on white background".

The web page should specify either
- all colors (foreground, background, new link, visited link, active link), or
- no colors.
Of these, it is highly recommended that the latter is done instead of the former.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Fix the configuration of Pipermail, if possible. Otherwise, edit the Pipermail program's source code and remove the generation of the ``BGCOLOR="#ffffff"'' HTML source part.

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