begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:47:07PM -0700: [snip] > For every person who like less contrast with off-white, there will be a > bunch of people for whom it looks ivory and hate it.
For awhile, "bisque" was the happening 'neutral' color. I'm half-convinced it was because people liked the name. > That having been said, a lot of blogs are starting to use "white on > black ... snazzy!" and I can't *stand* it. I find that I have to use a > bigger font or the text looks like vibrates. I've run across a bunch of those sorts of pages, and I generally bail. Even when I bring up a dark-background terminal, I tend to avoid white as the foreground color and instead go for grey. I've just discovered ctrl+scrollwheel for OS X. "Wanna zoom? okay." > Fortunately, there is NoSquint for Firefox. NoSquint is probably the > least intrusive extension I have ever used. It remembers the text > setting for a page that you visit that you have to manually adjust. So, > if you have to go back there, you don't have to keep adjusting it for > every page. Maybe there is a NoSquint for background and text colors. "Use My Default Colors", perhaps? Or some sort of user.css black magic. > This became a bigger issue when I bought a Gateway Extreme HD 1600p > monitor. 2560x1600 resolution makes some websites illegible even with a > big monitor. Mmmmm... shiny. > By way of recommendation, I love the monitor. The contrast can be eye > searing until you get it adjusted, and the only way to adjust it on OS X > is through the calibration panel (why would you leave out manual > controls?). It's very nice to use when you're doing schematics and can > actually edit a B-size sheet at B-size. How many (usable, not uber-tiny-fonts) xterms can you tile on to that screen? > However, if I was doing graphics, I would probably avoid it. It seems > like its color palette has some narrowness. Of course, I would probably > pull out my 24" Sony CRT instead of any LCD monitor, but that's just me. Desk space is too dear... I got rid of most of my CRTs, and will be getting rid of more here eventually. -- Wonder what I have that could drive 2560x1600 at more than 2 bits depth? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
