The default background colors on early browsers wasn't always white. On Netscape Navigator on the Mac up to about version 4 the default background color was #C0C0C0 (IIRC). I seem to recall that also being Mosaic's default background color. Navigator on Windows had white as the default background color as did IE.
My first excursions on the web were on Macs so I thought something pages were doing some Windows-specific trickery when I first saw the same pages on Windows with white instead of grey backgrounds.
Even a lot of books on HTML in the early days had screenshots from Macs and you'd follow an example on Windows and the output would look different because of the different default background color.
My first excursions on the web were on Macs so I thought something pages were doing some Windows-specific trickery when I first saw the same pages on Windows with white instead of grey backgrounds.
Even a lot of books on HTML in the early days had screenshots from Macs and you'd follow an example on Windows and the output would look different because of the different default background color.