- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:42:22 +0000
- To: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > In any case, authoring for interlaced displays assumes that you know the > height of a scan line in CSS units. Media queries don't tell you how > many scan lines a px equals, for example. I think you can safely assume (and I think designers do assume) that a scan line is exactly 1px on all CRT displays, and especially ones that would need interlacing. > these days for a desktop to have a screen that is both interlaced and Which says a lot about the throwaway society. > has such a low refresh rate that it makes small details flicker. > I don't find flicker a problem on small details. It is a problem when someone designs large areas with alternate pixels dark and light on a vertical section. Flicker being more noticeable on large areas is why early VDUs used a black background and white (green/orange) text. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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