- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:13:03 -0700
- To: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Cc: "fremycompany_pub@yahoo.com" <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.com>, "SULLIVAN, BRYAN L" <bs3131@att.com>, Dzung D Tran <dzung.d.tran@intel.com>, François Remy (pub) <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, Doug Turner <dougt@mozilla.com>, CSS WG <www-style@w3.org>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Okay. Sounds fair. > > Shall we keep these up to the UA, and put the suggested ranges in > non-normalized text? Yes, that appears necessary, due to the variance in actual detected lux values across devices. ~TJ
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