Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Mark Eichin
> high contrast. That's why books are printed on white paper and not (1) Paper Doesn't *GLOW* (2) spurious argument (the history has *nothing* to do with contrast: black ink has less variation than white; printing white on black paper would be hard by comparison, and it isn't really known if it

Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
I find that there is a tremendous amount a glare produced on my terminal screen with a pure white background. I am HTML ignorant, but the offending command usually looks like this: in, e.g., http://www.debian.org and other assorted Debian info pages. The Netscape default, i.e., with BGCOLO

Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Mark Eichin
This was flamed about once before; you might check the logs for the comments from back then. (I'm fortunate that the two browsers I do use let me ignore all color specs in html, for pure white tends to flicker much more, which I find highly annoying.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Jim Pick
Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > I find that there is a tremendous amount a glare produced on my terminal > screen with a pure white background. Well, I disagree with the changing the colour to grey. I like white. Most people have a decent monitor, and the white background looks very nice. Leaving the b

Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was flamed about once before; you might check the logs for the > comments from back then. (I'm fortunate that the two browsers I do use > let me ignore all color specs in html, for pure white tends to flicker > much more, which I find highly annoying.

Re: Round 2 - proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Sue Campbell wrote: > I am mainly looking for the following from people: > - opinions on the 'Debian goes International' page I may sound silly but, where is it? I found it referenced on debian.org/new/site-index-proposed.html , but "find" doesn't show any file "internation

Re: proposed changes to Debian web pages

1997-09-14 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Netscape default, i.e., with BGCOLOR omitted, produces a nice, easy > on the eyes grey. This is not what the research has shown -- readability is produced by high contrast. That's why books are printed on white paper