I wrote a program recently I'm calling "slowdown". It's intended for very high I/O load situations - EG, during a system backup, a filesystem transfer to another computer, when you're generating md5sums (or more generally, cryptographic digests - EG, tripwire, samhain, &c) or similar for all your system binaries, and so on.
The program works by using ptrace (linux) or /proc (solaris) to sleep for a user-specified number of seconds and fractions of seconds, each time the monitored process performs a file or socket data transfer.
do something about the white text on black background on your webpage.
It's fryin my eyeballs...Please use something easier on the eyes, o-tay?
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>>do something about the white text on black background on your webpage.
>>It's fryin my eyeballs...Please use something easier on the eyes, o-tay?
> Looks fine to me
Very hard to read.
I have seen many complaints about web pages with white text on a black background, but no complaints about black text on a white (or near white) background. Why do you suppose this is?
>>>do something about the white text on black background on your webpage.
>>>It's fryin my eyeballs...Please use something easier on the eyes, o-tay? >> Looks fine to me
> Very hard to read.
> I have seen many complaints about web pages with white text on a black > background, but no complaints about black text on a white (or near > white) background. Why do you suppose this is?
MSFT brainwashing?
Most users were not introduced to computers on an IBM 3270 terminal?
Terrorists know that white backgrounds use more electricity so they have a campaign against black backgrounds?
Google turns up results with the same unsubstantiated opinion about most users preferences, but an ARS Technica poll had 34% for white on black, 15% black on white.
My opinion, monitor tuning might have something to do with it, but it's largely personal preference.
Hugh Coomes <hcoo...@insightbb.com> writes: >Very hard to read. >I have seen many complaints about web pages with white text on a black >background, but no complaints about black text on a white (or near >white) background. Why do you suppose this is?
The only reason people started using white on black in the computer screens originally were technical limitations; both wear of the phosporos as well as the inability to make crisp letters while having a completely green background was horrible.
But modern screens being what they are, black on (off-)white is much more like your paper. The eye has several problems lettering on colered backgrounds, some to do with the relative refraction of light waves (try reading red on blue, for one, the eye can't cope specifically at greater distances); and matters of contrast.
Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.
Whenever I read these Web pages, I just press ^A (Select All in most browsers).
BTW, many people prefer white text on black background. putty or DOS console on a PC choose that as default. But if you do a test with the same font face and color, you'll find that black text on white is easier to see than white text on black. Check by standing at the same distance from your screen. (In either case, gray color is always bad.)
Casper H.S. Dik wrote: > Hugh Coomes <hcoo...@insightbb.com> writes:
>>Very hard to read.
>>I have seen many complaints about web pages with white text on a black >>background, but no complaints about black text on a white (or near >>white) background. Why do you suppose this is?
> The only reason people started using white on black in the computer > screens originally were technical limitations; both wear of the phosporos > as well as the inability to make crisp letters while having a completely > green background was horrible.
> But modern screens being what they are, black on (off-)white is much > more like your paper. The eye has several problems lettering on > colered backgrounds, some to do with the relative refraction of light > waves (try reading red on blue, for one, the eye can't cope specifically > at greater distances); and matters of contrast.
> Casper
Thanks for the response. This also helps explain why ink on parchment was such a technological improvement over clay tablets. Too bad so many web site developers have gone back to the modern equivalent of clay tablets.
>>> do something about the white text on black background on your webpage.
>>> It's fryin my eyeballs...Please use something easier on the eyes, >>> o-tay?
>> Looks fine to me
> Very hard to read.
> I have seen many complaints about web pages with white text on a black > background, but no complaints about black text on a white (or near > white) background. Why do you suppose this is?
My browser (Netscape V7.2) renders this page as black text on a white background!
