[TxMt] Light Text/Black Background?!?

[David Lee]

well, if we're going to talk about sunglasses, it's probably worth 
remembering that a CRT is essentially a big electron gun aimed at your 
brain.

I get a visible area of burst blood vessels on my eyeballs when i use 
one for a long session - I definitely wouldn't use a dark background 
with one of those things.

D



On 07/04/2005, at 2:40 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:

> 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).
>
> -- 
> Sune.
>
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