"Code Sandwiches"

[Nick Sabalausky]

"spir" <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2474.1299967680.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Even with a brightness
>>> >  setting matching the ambient light (many people I know have turned 
>>> > the
>>> >  backlight up way too high), longer blocks of white text on a dark
>>> >  background have the nasty habit of leaving an after-image in my eyes, 
>>> > as
>>> >  demonstrated by this site:http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/.
>>> >
>> That's a very poor example of light-on-dark: It's all-bold, pure-white on
>> pure-black. Even light-on-dark fans don't do that. The "white" is 
>> normally a
>> grey.
>
> It's very strange. What the text on this page explains, complaining about 
> light text on dark background, is exactly what I experience when reading 
> text with the opposite combination, eg PDFs.
> His text holds a link that switches colors (thus suddenly displaying black 
> on white): this kills my eyes! I have to zap away at once.
>

Yea, I have a hard time looking at that version, too. And I didn't even see 
it until after I was away from the page for about an hour and then came 
back.

There are also other reasons that both versions of that page are hard to 
read:

- All bold.
- All justified (I honestly do find justified text harder to read than 
left-algned. And the difference is much more pronounced with narrower text 
columns, such as that page uses.)
- One loooong paragraph.