Originally Posted by
Zorak
I am a long-time and vocal critic of various technical failings (IMO) of the FT/IB system, but if the dark mode background is #333333, and someone writes a post that explicitly uses the tag "color=#333333" as the color of their text (you can see it if you click Quote on that message and then the Source button in the editor), I am not sure what you want the software to do
Granted, one proposal that seems reasonable at first, might be to automatically pick a different color when the color tag is the same as the background, sometimes people do it deliberately -- e.g. presuming "light mode" sometimes people will ask a trivia or secret question kind of thing and use the color tag to make the text white so it doesn't appear initially but shows up when you highlight it. From a usability standpoint it seems like a bad idea for software to change a color setting that a user explicitly specified -- you would get complaints the other way.
As I suggested upthread, perhaps the powers-that-be would consider changing (or reducing) the color palette for post text. Nobody needs to be writing in that specific color (or yellow, or neon green, etc.). I'd like to think that most of us are adults here and won't lose too many users if we reduced the colors available.
-J.