Re: Use-case for turning off display smoothing
Use of bold, italic, and underline for syntax highlighting can also be effective in conjunction with color/value differences. - Eben On 8/22/07, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We should alway make sure that there is some value contrast in our > color choices so that (a) things will work in reflective mode and (b) > those with color vision deficiencies can still see important > distinctions. > > -walter > > On 8/22/07, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/22/07, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm thinking about syntax coloring. In cases like this, it is more > important > > > to be able to see *whether* something is colored than to see what > color it > > > is. Even with no backlight, the diagonal banding would give you that > > > information; the smoothing, by reducing that banding, would be getting > in > > > the way. > > > > There's no display smoothing without the backlight. The smoothing is > > only done when color is being shown (thus the backlight is on). > > > > It might be better to use 'reversed text' and/or slightly-tinted > > backgrounds for highlighting. These should expand the number of > > different style variants which we can distinguish without needing to > > parse small differences in greylevel. > > --scott > > > > -- > > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > > ___ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > One Laptop per Child > http://laptop.org > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Use-case for turning off display smoothing
We should alway make sure that there is some value contrast in our color choices so that (a) things will work in reflective mode and (b) those with color vision deficiencies can still see important distinctions. -walter On 8/22/07, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/07, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm thinking about syntax coloring. In cases like this, it is more important > > to be able to see *whether* something is colored than to see what color it > > is. Even with no backlight, the diagonal banding would give you that > > information; the smoothing, by reducing that banding, would be getting in > > the way. > > There's no display smoothing without the backlight. The smoothing is > only done when color is being shown (thus the backlight is on). > > It might be better to use 'reversed text' and/or slightly-tinted > backgrounds for highlighting. These should expand the number of > different style variants which we can distinguish without needing to > parse small differences in greylevel. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Use-case for turning off display smoothing
On 8/22/07, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking about syntax coloring. In cases like this, it is more important > to be able to see *whether* something is colored than to see what color it > is. Even with no backlight, the diagonal banding would give you that > information; the smoothing, by reducing that banding, would be getting in > the way. There's no display smoothing without the backlight. The smoothing is only done when color is being shown (thus the backlight is on). It might be better to use 'reversed text' and/or slightly-tinted backgrounds for highlighting. These should expand the number of different style variants which we can distinguish without needing to parse small differences in greylevel. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
