Backgrounds

Mosaic now supports background images. These are invoked by using the HTML 3.0 <BODY> attributes:

BACKGROUND="image.gif": Use image.gif as the background texture.
BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0: Set the background color to the corresponding RGB hexidecimal triplet. For example, 000000 is black, FFFFFF white, 00FF00 green.

Below are a number of background textures from various sources. With a good paint program, you can create your own images, or alter existing ones:

It's generally a good idea to use simple patterns for backgrounds that don't interfere with the text of the page. Most (but not all) people use black text on a white or grey background, so if you can't read the page with black text, odds are noone else will be able to either.

It is possible to change the text color to make it more readable with the background, but some people get rather militant when you do this. The following HTML 3.0 <BODY> attributes allow you to alter text color:

TEXT=#000000: Set the normal text color.
LINK=#000000: Set the hypertext anchor color.
VLINK=#C00000: Set the visited anchor color.