Hi,
I am hesitant about stirring up this particular pile of worms
again, but the last time around, I advocated putting the background
colour in style sheets, so people have a little more leeway in over
riding it.
But I don't think strongly enough about it to champion the
style
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Sue Campbell wrote:
> As the webmaster, I probably should have stepped in earlier on this
> discussion. As was stated earlier, this was discussed a while ago
> and the majority asked for white. Just so there is no accusations
> of bias, I'll mention that I find the pure white
Please read that as "contributor of internet services", not "contributor if
internet services".
Thanks
Bruce
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> From: "lilo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
From: Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As for the iris opening wider -- I suspect that the overall lighting
> of the room you're in has a greater effect than the coloring of the
> page; that would seem to be why my vision specialist recommended a
> brightly lit room, *not* just a local bright ligh
On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 06:05:47PM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
>
> > high contrast. That's why books are printed on white paper and not
>
> (1) Paper Doesn't *GLOW*
Second!
> (2) spurious argument (the history has *nothing* to do with contrast:
> black ink has less variation than white; printing
As the webmaster, I probably should have stepped in earlier on this
discussion. As was stated earlier, this was discussed a while ago
and the majority asked for white. Just so there is no accusations
of bias, I'll mention that I find the pure white background distracting.
I would ask that people d
Ah, I forgot about the rod/cone resolution difference.
As for the iris opening wider -- I suspect that the overall lighting
of the room you're in has a greater effect than the coloring of the
page; that would seem to be why my vision specialist recommended a
brightly lit room, *not* just a local
I too am willing to trust the judgement of the web team in picking the
background and other esthetic issues.
As an academic point, black type on a white background is the highest contrast
you can arrive at for the _luminance_ sensing cells of the eye, which have at
least two times the resolution o
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