On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote: >> >> You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright when bold >> sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read >> without >> it... > > Why does no-one ever seem to consider just not using programs which are > broken this badly, or at least filing serious bug reports on them? It's
They are not broken. As far as i understand it, both ways are correct. Early terminals did not have bold fonts, so bold text was done using higher brightness (which actually looked bold on these Eye burning machines).