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by snowwrestler 3710 days ago
So basically you reversed the defaults in order to make it easier to find sites with partial style declarations, so you can yell at them.

Seems like a big waste of time to me.

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> So basically you reversed the defaults in order to make it easier to find sites with partial style declarations, so you can yell at them.

Nope, it's only the especially egregious that get yelled at. In the case of ticketmaster.es, their purchase form looks like this with the default black-on-white colour settings https://imagebin.ca/v/2ekv8S6pbKls

It looks like they're forcing the foreground colour of native text input fields to be black, and the background of native drop-down lists to be white. I refuse to change my entire GTK+ theme (and hence, every application I use on a machine which I spend the majority of every day staring at) to an eye-straining black-on-white colour scheme just to make up for some Web devs going out of their way to break their own sites.

Plus, in the case of ticketmaster, their form handler mangled my input; their "change details" form didn't work; they provide no contact details other than accounts on social media sites which require signing up to; their entire "help" section is an "ask us a question" form which displays all submissions publically; and so on. Besides, it's not "yelling", it's bug reporting; they're free to ignore it.

It's not for everyone.