"Code Sandwiches"

[David Nadlinger]

On 3/12/11 11:34 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.

Oh, really? I guess there is no way this site could be a fabricated 
example for clearly demonstrating the effect, right?