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Back in early 1995, a lot of Web sites looked alike. Gray backgrounds with black text and blue links. Pretty drab, overall. But Netscape Navigator 1.1 changed the playing field - from gray to white, or fuchsia, or gold.... By expanding the <body> tag to include modifying tags for text and background color - <body bgcolor=? text=? link=? vlink=? alink=?> - Netscape allowed designers to completely alter (for better, or - more often - for worse) the look of their pages. Netscape's new body tags took off with flying colors, and other browser makers had no choice but to follow suit. But faster than you can say "follow the leader," Netscape upped the ante again. Netscape Navigator 2.0 introduced font tags that specified different colors for different words - or, for that matter, different letters. While its predecessor let you turn a page of text lime green, the new version spilled the whole crayon box, letting you make one word lime green, the next purple, the next oran ge, and so on. As with all the tags Netscape introduced, font color is only visible on those browsers that have hustled to keep up with the Joneses. Pages that are designed with multiple colors will appear monotone on browsers that aren't Netscape compliant. In many cases, this can be considered merciful, but still, it's something to keep in mind.
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