Re: Next step for DAP Ambient Light Events

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, fremycompany_pub@yahoo.com
> <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Would you really want to change the site color’s scheme to high contrast
>> black and white at only 1000 lux? If Microsoft data are to be believed, I
>> would set the threshold between 10 000 and 100 000, depending of the screen
>> brightness and reflectance.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Yes, 1000 lux is far too little.
>
> "bright" is supposed to mean "direct sunlight, or similarly bright
> conditions that make it hard to see things that aren't high-contrast".
>  Based on Wikipedia's lux table <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux>,
> I'd set "bright" to start around 10k lux.
>
> Similarly, "dim" is supposed to mean "dark enough that the light
> produced by a white background is eye-straining or distracting", so
> 300 is far too high (given that it's roughly office lighting).  I'd
> have it start at 50 lux or so.
>
> ~TJ


Okay.  Sounds fair.

Shall we keep these up to the UA, and put the suggested ranges in
non-normalized text?

Doug

Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:04:00 UTC