I have set up my user profile for this website to display it much differently than the default. Mine was mostly black, with white text. However, since yesterday ( I assume since the validation has begun ) the colors are different. Mostly the main background of the page. See here for an example of what I mean:
Sorry, I meant the entire background, not just the background of the table cells. But yes, the background is working great. Only thing I've seen now is that the background for quotes is not being affected, and is showing the pinky/whitey/orangy background color.
The document located at <http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=6141&page=1>; was checked and found to be valid HTML 4.01 Transitional. This means that the resource in question identified itself as "HTML 4.01 Transitional" and that we successfully performed a formal validation using an SGML or XML Parser (depending on the markup language used).
The only element I notice missing is the background graphic that gave the page that speckled look. Easy enough to fix in the CSS body tag, just add a directive like so specifying the proper graphic:
Dunno what happened, but that speckled background has over-ridden the user preferences again, so for example I'm see the speckes surrounding the black-backgrounded table containing the reply text box and such, where the speckles should be a solid black color.