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Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Date: May 8, 2008 23:20

http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,

just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
think?
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Re: Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Author: brian d foy
Date: May 9, 2008 01:31

In article
q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
<"lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com"> wrote:
> http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,
>
> just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
> think?

Maybe because it is several years out of date and you should look at it
anymore. :)
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Re: Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Author: Ben Bullock
Date: May 9, 2008 04:22

On Thu, 08 May 2008 23:20:13 -0700, lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,
>
> just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
> think?

That colour scheme is not as bad as the one on cpanforum.com: blue on
grey, with red and yellow highlights??? Aaargh! Another dreadful design
is the one on perlmonks.org, whose colours come out fairly normal but
which guarantees to make every single font the wrong size.

A useful trick for browsing the WWW, if you have Firefox, is

View -> Page Style -> No Style

It works on removing Larry Wall's hideous colour scheme, and on
cpanforum.com, but it doesn't help much with perlmonks.org.
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Re: Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Author: Andreas Pürzer
Date: May 9, 2008 08:56

lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com schrieb:
> http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,
>
> just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
> think?
>

On http://www.wall.org/~larry/ he explains it, right beside his pictures
(and in the 'Web and CGI' part). What else is there to say? ;)

Greetings,
Andreas Pürzer

--
Have Fun,
and if you can't have fun,
have someone else's fun.
The Beautiful South
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Re: Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Author: Ilya Zakharevich
Date: May 9, 2008 10:37

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com
gmail.com>], who wrote in article q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:
> http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,
>
> just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
> think?

The other colors are all trademarked. (See wrappings of PostIt (TM).)

Hope this helps,
Ilya
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Re: Why Larry Wall uses this background color #e0ff00 for his web page         


Date: May 10, 2008 03:41

On May 9, 11:56 pm, Andreas Pürzer gmx.net> wrote:
> lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com schrieb:
>>http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html,
>> just curious, but this is odd, and does harm the eyes : 0, what do u
>> think?
>
> Onhttp://www.wall.org/~larry/he explains it, right beside his pictures
> (and in the 'Web and CGI' part). What else is there to say? ;)

The background color of the web page in the latter link is #e8ff00.
They are similar but different.
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