Re: Draft charter for sci.math

From: Larry Hammick (larryhammick_at_OMIT-MEtelus.net)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:05:29 GMT

"William Elliot" <marsh@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:20050221191705.M34089@agora.rdrop.com...
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, John M. Gamble wrote:
> > William Elliot <marsh@privacy.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Larry Hammick wrote:
> >>> <matt271829-news@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> >>>>
> >>>> 4. Large amounts of white text on a coloured background is a bad
idea.
> >>>> Black text on a white background is best.
> >>> I'm with you on (3) and (4). I'm not so sure about (1).
> >>>
> >> White text on black is how I have my screen set.
> >>
> >> It's much less glare and eye strain than black text
> >> on the much larger area of white backgroud.
> >>
> >> For printed books, the opposite is true for the book doesn't
> >> emit light like the screen does.
> >
> > Back when color was a relatively new thing for monitors, and
> > the EGA card was a rare and arcane thing, we came out with a
> > color version of an editor that we were using. We didn't
> > set any special colors, but instead used the default
> > white on black.
> >
> > After about a week, everyone had settled on white on blue
> > without us setting any defaults.
> >
> > For that matter, I'm typing this on a screen with white
> > characters on a blue background.
> >
> As a matter of fact so am I. Now why did I think it black?
> Indeed white on jet black would be glare.

Okay, I'm sold. White on blue.

> > The introduction of context-sensitive editors (that
> > highlight keywords or other constructs with different
> > colors) has probably pushed the pendulum back in the
> > other direction, since this is easier to do with a
> > white background.
> >
> From clear speaking ascii departed the
> cursed Microsofties unto the tower of babble
> into formats more profuse than talking in tongues.
:)

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