- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:40:49 +0100 (MET)
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, Sherm Pendley <sherm@infoboard.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 5, 4:59am, David Perrell wrote: > I don't consider > my sight to be unusually impaired, but I've seen many sites with dark > type on a busy dark background that I can hardly read. I'd love to have > an instant override. A guess - you don't use a Mac or an SGI or a NeXT to browse with. Another guess - the doument authors did. And it wasn't illegible to them. The difference being gamma correction, ignoring which causes errors of several hundred percent - especially for dark colors. Note that the CSS1 specification defines what a color means, in terms of measurable objective color specifications, and also that the minimum that implementors must do to display these tightly specified colors is to implement reasonable gamma correction. So hopefully, you won't need to switch off stylesheets just because what looked dark and moody (but legible) on a Mac became very dark and unreadable on your system. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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