Ask HN: Did the colour of the header bar change?

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It does every year at this time. It's a seasonal change that will be rolled back soon. Oddly, I had just set a user-configured topcolor for the first time just as the site topcolor was changed. Now I get to observe which HN pages don't display the user-configured topcolor.

On my mac, it looks like black on dark red. I have difficulty reading this, and recall old games with code numbers with this color scheme so they couldn't be xeroxed!

Mac’s render color differently than non-Mac’s. That is a positive thing that a lot of people like about the Mac when using applications, but if you have a MAC, the coded page display you see inside your browser is not always what was intended by the developer.

I believe it has to do with the gamma settings on the Mac monitor which I believe can be adjusted.

It can be corrected for on the developers end also (with effort-time), but I wonder how many non-mega sites are taking this into consideration. As you found out 90% or so of the world sees red and green as intended, yet you saw black on dark red.

If the Mac’s Gamma is altered across the board for all applications I would assume you will lose a lot of the slickness that attracted you to the Mac in the first place.

I’m surprised no-one has written a plug-in for the Mac browsers that will ensure that just coded page content, flash, and pics render in the browser on the Mac Screen like a non-Mac. I assume this could be marketed as a browser enhancement for $$$. Call it something cool like Leopard Fangs.

Yes. And the numbers next to submissions are alternating green and red. Merry Christmas!

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