On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > It turns out that my problem appears unrelated, however. If you can view this > page on an iPad in landscape and portrait mode, you'll see the phenomenon: > > <http://vze26m98.net/css-discuss/test-ipad.html> > > The black-on-white text appears to preserve its thickness, while the > white-on-black type appears "thicker" in landscape than portrait. > > I assume this is some phenomenon of the way that the iPad display hardware > works. Or it could be (LCD) displays in general, as I now realize that the > iPhone simulator doesn't rotate the display, it rotates a frame around a > simulated screen. Doh! ;-) > > Odd also that I have a mockup on an iPhone 3G/iOS4 that doesn't seem to have > this problem
Could be the way font-smoothing for reverse text works on iPad screens and how text (characters) hook to the underlying pixel grid. It is almost certainly less visible at higher resolution (iPhone). On my desktop mac (webkit and gecko browsers), the reverse text appears slightly 'fatter' than the black-on-white text. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
