Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:32:15 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which gray is best for print? Message-ID: <20080907143215.0d15af94.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20080906233355.GB4326@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> <20080905223859.8ad56b37.freebsd@edvax.de> <20080906033645.GA93841@thought.org> <200809061038.45932.kstewart@owt.com> <20080906233355.GB4326@phenom.cordula.ws>
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:33:55 +0200, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > Personally, I really dislike pure white backgrounds on light-emitting > surfaces. When reading from a physical book, white is the best background, > but when reading it from a CRT or LCD, it hurts my eyes very fast up to a > point where I start to get a headache and have to stop after 10 to 20 > minutes. While the book paper just reflects light, the screen (CRT or LED) emits light, this seems to have a higher energy that is sometimes not very pleasant to the eye's sensory array. > That's why I usually use a user-specific CSS to override that > pure-white background and change it to light grey. That's what I like the switch "Author mode / user mode" in the Opera browser. It strips any CSS stuff from the document and lets me apply my custom color settings. Sometimes, even badly designed pages become readable after all. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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