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Bug 185760 - no link color on gentoo web pages
Summary: no link color on gentoo web pages
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] gpackages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Packages Website
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Reported: 2007-07-18 12:06 UTC by Michal Suchanek
Modified: 2012-12-30 10:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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screenshot (pgo.png,169.78 KB, image/png)
2008-03-02 09:54 UTC, Xavier Neys (RETIRED)
Details

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Description Michal Suchanek 2007-07-18 12:06:05 UTC
The stylesheets for gentoo web pages generally specify the background color but do not specify the foreground color for all elements.

Specifically the color for a:link and a:visited is missing. Sometimes even text color is missing.

This means that the link text is rendered on the page specific background with browser theme specific foreground color, possibly unreadable or even invisible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. browse the gentoo site
1. use browser settings with different default page colors
2. browse the gentoo site


Actual Results:  
most of the elements on the pages do not change as their color is specified in the stylesheet. However, the link color does change. Choosing a theme with light link color makes links unreadable.

Expected Results:  
The page should render completely in site specific colors or completely in browser colors, not mix the two.

This happens specifically to links on gentoo overlays site  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/devguide.xml , text and links in the top100 frame in the bug report page http://bugs.gentoo.org/duplicates.cgi?product=Website%20www.gentoo.org&format=simple, links in documentation http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml , links on bugzilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Website%20www.gentoo.org&format=guided
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-18 16:13:59 UTC
Can reproduce on bugs.g.o, not on www.go
Comment 2 Nuno Silva 2007-08-20 10:39:55 UTC
This is happening here too.

I mailed the webmaster some weeks ago, but I've got no reply yet, so I wrote about this in the fora: 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-574419.html

There's a W3C QA tip on this:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/color

And a screenshot is available at:
http://njsg.no.sapo.pt/imagens/other/gentoo.png
Comment 3 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-20 13:32:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can reproduce on bugs.g.o, not on www.g.o

Actually, I can :)

(In reply to comment #2)
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-574419.html
> 
> There's a W3C QA tip on this:
> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/color
> 
> And a screenshot is available at:
> http://njsg.no.sapo.pt/imagens/other/gentoo.png

Thanks for the tip and screenshot.

FYI, neither background nor foreground colours were specified for links.
White background property was inherited and foreground colours came from your defaults, hence the light colours on white.
It should be fixed on www.g.o within an hour.

bugs.g.o still needs some TLC
Comment 4 Nuno Silva 2007-08-20 22:47:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Thanks for the tip and screenshot.

You're welcome :-)

> FYI, neither background nor foreground colours were specified for links.
> White background property was inherited and foreground colours came from your
> defaults, hence the light colours on white.
> It should be fixed on www.g.o within an hour.

The www.gentoo.org pages are fine now, thanks.
Comment 5 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2007-09-27 02:00:08 UTC
fixed
Comment 6 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-02 09:49:15 UTC
packages.g.o is affected as well
Comment 7 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-02 09:54:28 UTC
Created attachment 145072 [details]
screenshot
Comment 8 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2012-12-30 08:53:38 UTC
This appears to have been fixed long ago.

-A
Comment 9 Nuno Silva 2012-12-30 10:35:08 UTC
I confirm http://www.gentoo.org/ has been fixed, but this still affects http://packages.gentoo.org/.