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DE

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Feb 11, 2010, 7:09:44 PM2/11/10
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I have a user whose links suddenly started appearing in red, instead of
in blue as in the past. It appears that the link color is tied to the
default view: red for plain text and blue for HTML.

Problem is that even setting the default Read view to HTML, the messages
still initially read as plain text with the links as red.

I have trid this on my own install & have the same issue: no way, no
how, can I make the default view HTML even on my own posted reminders,
so the links appear in red.

Red is problematic for people who are color-blind.

The user reports this only started recently; I think it's possibly
coincident with GW7,3 HP4 (which I believe is the latest.)

Is there any mechanism to set the links to something other than red, or
to actually force the HTML view for reading?

Thanks.

Dave Parkes

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Feb 12, 2010, 6:20:50 AM2/12/10
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Try changing the default browser back to IE, I think that will change the
link colour back to blue.

You should be able to force the HTML view under
Tools/Options/Environment/Views

Cheers Dave


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DE

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Feb 12, 2010, 1:11:05 PM2/12/10
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Dave Parkes wrote:
> Try changing the default browser back to IE, I think that will change
> the link colour back to blue.

Oh, that's an interesting connection that I hadn't considered. (Yes,
the default browser did change recently.)


>
> You should be able to force the HTML view under
> Tools/Options/Environment/Views

It seems to work, for me, with mail views, but not with my own posted
tasks & reminder notes. No matter what I set for default for those
categories, it keeps bring up plain text.

Is that a bug in 7.3HP4, or has it always been that way & I never noticed?

DE

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Feb 12, 2010, 1:19:43 PM2/12/10
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DE wrote:
> Dave Parkes wrote:
>> Try changing the default browser back to IE, I think that will change
>> the link colour back to blue.
>
> Oh, that's an interesting connection that I hadn't considered. (Yes,
> the default browser did change recently.)

Also, is there -any- way to over-ride this? Red is really an awful
choice, as it's very hard for many color-blind people to read.

(I seem to recall complaints about red text going back many years.)

-- DE

Dave Parkes

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Feb 14, 2010, 11:20:31 AM2/14/10
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Ah, you didn't mean mail views, no way I know of to set the defaults for
the others, I thought the posted views were always defaulted to plain text.

Dave Parkes

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Feb 14, 2010, 11:21:27 AM2/14/10
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Nothing that I can think of, I've always seen them as red for
Netscape/Firefox and blue for IE
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