On 06-04-2005, at 11:33, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:02, David Lee wrote:
to my mind it depends on the ambient light a lot as well. Dark b/g seems to make a lot more sense late at night ..
Yes -- I think the thesis is something like, the majority of space is the background color, if this is dark/black, your eye will not pick up much light, and thus will be dilated. This means that the retina is more exposed and the “bright” white text will affect it more (how bad for your eyes this actually is, I don't know).
Probably not too much.. but that's not my professional opinion. It's the same thing with the (mainly older and cheaper) sun glasses without U/V filters. Your pupils will be dilated because of the dimmed light, but the U/V rays go straight through the cheap plastic, and hurt your eyes in some, for me, unknown way (mutations? Maybe you can get x-ray vision that way :-p).