From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T05:28:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Redesign 2005 Blog


On Mar 20, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
>> I don't quite understand your problem, especially considering I am
>> writing this with black on white in gmail.
>
> If possible I am using a terminal emulation with green (lime) on black 
> (as it was used by ancient monitors :-).  In Thunderbird I use black 
> on gray - and start cursing when someone sends me an HTML-Mail with 
> hard-wired black on white.

Ideally, mail clients would give you the ability to override HTML 
emails with your own custom CSS -- maybe this is a feature request 
somewhere in the Thunderbird Bugzilla repository? Anyway, I generally 
expect CSS support of any level to be shoddy in mail clients ....

> The problem is not that I cannot read the text if it is black on white 
> but it is definitely stress for my eyes. I only have this problem with 
> monitors. Books are something different but I must admit that I prefer 
> recycling paper because it is somewhat gray (unless it smells).

Well, like you said, refresh rate is part of it. Also, don't 
underestimate the importance of DPI, or the fact that a CRT monitor is 
basically a gun shooting light at your eyes, as opposed to the passive 
diffusion you get out of reading text on paper. BTW, have you tried 
those anti-glare screens?

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/