I've noticed a lot of people accidentally click on ? links or other links in preview mode and get an oops. I changed preview.tmpl to have a different background color than view.tmpl. Of course, if your browser doesn't show colors you are no worse off than you were. I picked a color like Seashell -- sort of white, but not quite. Then I also added some text in the top bar to the effect of (colored background indicates preview).

Really, we should add default values to the preferences before loading them and provide a variable the templates could use for background colors. This would be nice to set per Web. In installations like mine where we validate users at all times, you could even let the users override. Could have %MAINBGCOLOR% and %ALTBGCOLOR% and let the templates use what they want. Would need some nice way to init prefsKeys and prefsValues from wikicfg.pm unless we just want to hard code the defaults.

This would be very little work except for changing each template and even that wouldn't be too hard with a little tool usage.

-- AlWilliams - 20 Sep 2000