The linode manager login form changes the text color without also changing the background. This makes the text unreadable if the browser uses non-standard colors.

http://qzx.com/tmp/linode-login-form.png

The login for this forum changes text color to black and doesn't change the background.

And the https://manager.linode.com/session/whitelist/... page uses red and green for the button text without changing background color.[/url]

Hmm, that would be a violation of the WCAG, which specifies that it's a failure of the guidelines to specify a text colour but not a background colour...

Still, why is your browser rendering such strange colours? It's also not properly centering that header...

"Strange" colours? Some of us simply prefer "light-on-dark" UIs.
It is less of an eyestrain.
All the "like a paper" things are wrong, because paper reflects light, it doesn't glow. A mostly-bright screen hits you in the face with a ton of light. A mostly-dark one doesn't.
For me, it the login screen looks like this.

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If you're changing the background colour, surely you can change the text colour just as easily?

The proper fix in this scenario is for Linode to specify the background colour as white, which isn't necessarily going to do what you want.

I was replying to the "why it renders so strange" part. It's just set to white on darg grey, just like mine is set to black on blue-ish.

And yes, they should explicitly set BG to white. Then the field will be readable again, no matter what the user's OS settings are.

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rsk, providing useless advice on the Internet since 2005.

The OS theme changes both text and background color. Linode then changes the text color and assumes the background color was white. Run the page through a CSS validator and it will fail because of this.



I want to be able to read what I'm typing, so yes, it will do what I want.