On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:47:07PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > 1) Color support used to be slow (and/or take up a palette entry) > 2) Color may cause rendering issues > 3) Color has emotional and cultural connotations > 4) It's not clear what non-white does on text-only devices > 5) It's what people are used to > 6) Any reason to go to off-white is subject to degree > > So, it's probably a combination of inertia and no obviously better place > to switch to.
None of these are showstoppers today right? > For every person who like less contrast with off-white, there will be a > bunch of people for whom it looks ivory and hate it. > > That having been said, a lot of blogs are starting to use "white on > black ... snazzy!" and I can't *stand* it. I find that I have to use a > bigger font or the text looks like vibrates. Is there *any* color combo you think will work besides one with a white background then? Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
