>>>Battleship grey was the big thing in WIn95.
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>>>>But you are wrong too. Even Win 95 was black on white for anything except dialog forms. The page you mention is no dialog...
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>>But not as the design rules from south of the vineyards told everybody. It was the quickl'n'dirty way everybody was using it. Don't acuse Win 95 for it. At least it was better then the ugly pastel rubbish they do now and one can not change. I mean it's okay to set up there stupid designs but why stop the user from setting it own colors?
>>Even if they are as mind blowing as the one example from lately? Users free will ...
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>A nice neutral grey is a lot easier on the eyes than something like Hot Dog Stand. I do recall seeing a few other color schemes in some programs that looked awful on a colour monitor but really nice on a black-and-white one.

Try to tell the kids what a b/w monitor is ....

It's not that I like Hot Dog Stand - but I hate to not be able to set my own stuff.