Re: Default style

I think the clearest conclusion is that the user needs to be able to choose
the styling. Not everyone finds the same style readable.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Christian Vogler <
> christian.vogler@gallaudet.edu> wrote:
>
>> Before going off on aesthetics, I think it would be useful to take a
>> long hard look at readability. For instance, things like this article:
>> http://captionmax.com/blog/2011/02/dvd-subtitles-are-unreadable/
>>
>
> Neither of the images in this post are using a text outline, so there's
> not much of a comparison to draw.  Of course white text with no contrast
> element at all is unacceptable.
>
> I also beg to differ with respect to modern captions not using a dark
>> background.
>
>
> The only major case I'm aware of is closed captioning, and those aren't
> modern.  They probably date to hardware which wasn't capable of anything
> else.
>
> While outlines help, they're still not as readable as a
>> suitable background. The question that needs answering here, I think,
>> is whether suitable outlining of fonts makes dark backgrounds
>> superfluous. I'm not sure that this is the case. Anyone have data on
>> this?
>>
>
> I disagree that dark backgrounds help at all compared to text outlines.  I
> only find them ugly, and very distracting.  There are lots of examples of
> outlined text here:
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Use_cases_for_timed_tracks_rendered_over_video_by_the_UA,
> and they're easy to read even at thumbnail size.
>
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> Glenn Maynard
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