Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:19:22 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>, k4n _ <k4n@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD webdesign Message-ID: <19990826051922.A6868@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <37BB0AEE.ED7B311F@nisser.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:35:10PM %2B0200 References: <19990817233734.80790.qmail@hotmail.com> <37BB0AEE.ED7B311F@nisser.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:35:10PM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > k4n _ wrote: > > > > I thought maybe you would be interested in a free website redesign(or > > something) so I downloaded the HTML for your site, and made a few changes. I > > made the background black, redid the FreeBSD logo slightly, and darkened the > > logos at the bottom to match the color scheme. If you are interested I can > > send you a copy, I think it looks pretty cool. See you later > > Why do people always assume that dark is cool. The purpose of a website > is to convey information. That means good readability, not looks. Whereas or someting long the lines of disabled people with various levels of visual acuity loss, the poor screen resolutions used by crts thes days, generally 70-90 dpi and finally those with colour diferentiation and distortion difficulties > beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, readability assuredly does not. sure is, and, teh freebsd is bearly readable because of teh all white background .. far better fro it to been a dark blue or cft black, i.e. all guns quiesent, ps this is not a real black, it depends on teh glass coatings. the phosphor types, thier retentivity and ignition characteristics. but this is not a technical discussion about crt construction, and or human visual acuity responce, is it ? > Barring the by now ancient amber CRT phosphor colors most research > shows that black on white (note the order) is best readable. philips researches (eindhoven - please excuse the name spelling, incase i get it really wrong) in conjunction with wiether siemans and or nixdorf of germany discoverd that a particular shade of blue (fairly luminescent, but not very 'visually bright') was the best 'colour' to use as teh std or default background state of teh viisble crt page. thier was a small hitch in this whole process, viola, people didn;t like the colour and so teh crt never saw the light of day .. latent puns intended. with regrds to this particular shade of blue, it was found that it induced the least amount (virtually zero) of muscle jitter (stress) because teh eye didn't "have to look at it", that is the background essentiall disapeard. thier were also other issues, regardsing and inparticular how the rods and conse in the retina actually responded to that particular frequency distribution (er, the colour of the lighting) o'well their is no accounting fro fashion or peoples inate stupidity ... grin. please note i use a fairly old nec multisync mk 1 with a not so "ergonomically correct" (fortunately for me) i.e a very harsh (high contrast) crt, nec no longer makes this kind of tube. to many americans sued becaue of eye strain i suppose ? i also use exclusively white on black, even when i (on very rare ocassions) venture into x11 realm. > The FreeBSD site is emminently readable, i challange your view .. the freebsd site is bearly viewable, let alone readable, by anyone who dosent have (as teh americans say 20/20 visual acuity and a fairly std colour diferantion. this doenst adress other such issues as page layout fro people who have to use a font that is say 20-30 percent bigger, thsi by the way is the NORMAL range fro comfort variation on the stasard poor quality monitor (less that about 150 dpi). "disabled" people require font re-sizeings measured in 100's of percent to achieve reability, not a meager 20 to thirty percent. > whereas the old freshmeat site > was not. In fact with my previous monitor's settings I couldn't even > read that site without upping the brightness (I'm a programmer, for > text high contrast is needed contrary to the high brightness for graphics > work). Clearly I was not alone in that they changed to a much > brighter color scheme. As well as black"er" on white lettering. sounds like you and all the rest know (i suppose it would be better to say, understand) very little about how to set up a monitor package to get the best 'screen to eye' connectivity. in short, the rooms ambient lighting -- its colour temperature and placement with respect to the crt screen and your eyes will determine how good or bad a particular monitor will "look". people make the same mistake with telivision set setiing up as well, by the way. once you get this right, you can use very low contrast and brightness settings on you monitor. this will in turn preserg you output guns, teh eht stage transformer and vht capacitor stage .. no more expensive eht circuit replaceemnts from over dirven componets. and, so the list continues. please note, i've just touched upon some of teh relevent issues to this discussion, thier are many others that would require much indepth understaninding by al parties concerned. what i've tried to present in a fairly dispassionate manner are some of the issue that require the least amount of effort to give signifficant advantage to all people who are inside the so called 'standard envelope' and that would greatly aid teh visability of teh site by thoose not so well endowed, either by God or as a result of accident. regards, jonathan ... toilets may be "disabled", people are not. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990826051922.A6868>