- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:34:02 -0700
- To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM, François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr> wrote: > | The level of contrast you want to pick for your web page > | should depend not only on the ambient light level, but also > | on the brightness of the screen. > | ... > | Also, most web authors would probably have no idea > | a which level of luminosity they should switch their styling. > > Exactly. This is why I was proposing keywords. However a > two-state filter can't make the trick here. > > In my sense, we should at least support 4 keywords: > > - In dark mode, you could switch to a white on black color scheme. > - In normal mode, you could use the dark gray on white color scheme. > - In bright mode, you could use black on white and remove gradients. > - In washed mode, you could switch to pure black/white, use bolder font. Do you know of any examples of devices that do even 4 levels? Every device I know of that adjusts to ambient light just has a two-stage switch between light and dark. For example, that's what google maps does. ~TJ
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