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I would like to read the article, but my eyes do not appreciate white text and black BG web pages. It is incredibly jarring and almost painful once you go "back
by monkmartinez 11y ago
I would like to read the article, but my eyes do not appreciate white text and black BG web pages. It is incredibly jarring and almost painful once you go "back" to the "normal" web. I will stick with the comments for now I guess.
- geofft 11y agoIn Chrome: right-click something on the page, click "Inspect element," click the link to style.css that shows up, select all and backspace. You actually get some fairly nice colors. (This comment is not intended as an opinion in either direction on whether the original color scheme is reasonable or whether you doing these steps is reasonable.)
- praneshp 11y agoThanks, this made the article readable for me.
- MBCook 11y agoThe problem is things like that can't be done on my iPad. In such cases I usually rely on reader mode but for whatever reason it's not available for the page. White-on-black text isn't normally that bad, I think it's the choice of thin font that makes it especially hard to read in this article.
- abrowne 11y agoNot being able to do things like that is why I don't have an iPad.
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- Timethy 11y agoHi MBCook the reader view works on my iPhone for this article.
- axman6 11y agoTriple tap the home button and then invert colours. Not the worlds best solution, but does solve the problem.
- jzd 11y agoGreat idea! I deleted everything in <head> and it looks beautiful
- Absentinsomniac 11y agoI've been planning to implement an alternate theme but haven't done it yet. Black on white is particularly irritating for people with astigmatism which appears to be a pretty big part of the population.
- mirekrusin 11y agoI think you meant "white on black" is irritating. People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the “deformed” lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye. Source http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on-dark-background-is-a-bad-idea/ http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on...
- Absentinsomniac 11y agoYes I did, my fault.
- snvzz 11y agoAmiga-like Black on grey is fantastic. But nobody uses it.
- christophilus 11y agoYeah. Agreed. That's why I use this: https://www.readability.com/ https://www.readability.com/ It turns crappy reading experiences into great ones.
- reportingsjr 11y agoIt isn't white on black that is an issue for me. I use gray on a black background all day for coding. This site is gray on gray, which makes it really freaking hard to read (and I have no issues with my eyes at all).
- such_a_casual 11y agoIn Firefox, I use reader mode whenever it's available. If you're using chrome there is probably an extension which does the same thing.