Although the article's interesting (hardly new info, but concisely described), the ghetto antialiasing, - or whatever excuse the CSS-writer had in mind for gray

Although the article's interesting (hardly new info, but concisely described), the ghetto antialiasing, - or whatever excuse the CSS-writer had in mind for gray-on-gray text - really hurts legibility. Seriously, high contrast is the answer - look at 95%+ of all books (white on black is high contrast but costs a lot more in ink, so books only typically have white on black). Back to the content, C++ syntax has always been a bit nasty, and the try/catch for constructor initializers adds yet another wart. It makes me miss LISP again.