RE: Turning off colorization

[Mirek Kaim <mirek.kaim@outlook.com>]

> In screen, using emacs24-nox from deb sid, and with TERM=screen-256color
> I get the background changed to gray and cyan links. In screen with
> TERM=rxvt I get that same gray background but blue links. OTOH, with
> screen and TERM=rxvt-unicode I get my proper white background and blue
> links. Using TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color (the terminal's default TERM)
> in screen gives the white background but light cyan links. (In that
> last case the *scratch* buffer's comments are light green on white, vs
> red on white for TERM=rxvt-unicode.) That is all on a box w/ a very
> minimal ~/.emacs.

yeah. emacs24-nox under screen here (cygwin), screen-256color as well. mintty theme set to solarized, and that website under eww is basically unreadable.

imho, when the terminal reports 256 colors (or emacs runs in GUI mode), website rendering should use full available palette, not the base theme colors, because this clearly leads to a disaster, especially in case of other-than-default theme. that, or avoid trying to be 'fancy, full featured rainbow web browser' and just stick to default background per theme and use only those base theme colors for text that are guaranteed to be readable. this should be the default, imho, because when someone cares about all that fancy css stuff, he surely won't be using eww for a web browsing anyway.


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