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Both IE7 and Firefox on Windows XP show alternating white and grey backgrounds.

On a sunny day (Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:33:01 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

Looks OK here in Opera in Linux Xfree86 on a Samsung. Are you sure your video monitor is set to true color or at least more then 16 bits? Here is a screengrab, it SHOULD look OK on you monitor, if it does not your settings suck. ftp://panteltje.com//pub/highland_site.gif

If you think this violates your koppie right let me knw, then I will erase it.

on my secondary monitor (dell2707) connected to a laptop I get the alternating grey/white, on the laptop it self I get just white unless I turn down the brightness

pick colors further apart?

-Lasse

I can see them... the color looks like a light blue-gray.

I can't see any contrast on your screen shot, either.

I would like this to work on all vid card+monitor combinations.

John

I see the difference in colour; it is quite nice and subtle, not intrusive but helps your eye follow the text, makes the page look easily assimilated, very effective.

The contrast is very clearly better at the top of my backlit LCD than at the bottom. I can scroll an area with poor contrast up to the top of my screen and it improves. I would not have noticed this if you had not asked me to comment.

This is a 5 year old laptop (running Firefox on Linux) so the backlight is probably relatively faded. I would guess that a new laptop with a bright screen would render these bars hard to see.

Uh... Make one of the colours less neutral, maybe pink, so your eye isn't simply seeing a difference in greyscale.

On a sunny day (Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:05:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

In the old times, when hardwre resources were limited, I had the X server on 16 bits IIRC. I would think that you have some settings wrong on your PC. Let's see what the others see. Very few people these days use less then full color. Those tha tdo cannot pay for your stuff anyways :-)

It's supposed to be a cream color, but it must be too subtle. Maybe "cream" is just white with the blue cranked down a little.

Maybe we need a more complex color so it always shows up on various monitors.

Thanks for the feedback.

John

On a sunny day (Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:05:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

Before you scew up a perfectly good website , please run the mtest.exe program in MS windows:

:-) Else it is a bit like somebody trying to calibrate equipment with a defective scope.

...and while you're in there, squash that one last bug so that the Worldwide Web Consortium's HTML validator smiles.

and you get this kind of result.

My wife says I am fairly color-blind at least when it comes to picking ties. But since you can't see them and I can it doesn't seem to be so bad :-)

It's white and then alternating to mildly gray on my monitor, a Viewsonic VA2701w. Very nicely readable and quite unobtrusive. Way it should be. What's (sort of) cream-colored are the tabs. Tell the brat she did a nice job :-)

Opera 11.01, javascript turned off: just the "one big table" with an all-white background. Kudos for accommodating non-javascript access.

Same, with javascript enabled: the tabs now work (as expected) and the spec table has mild gray (0xEE-0xEE-0xEE) alternating bands.

Improvements? Add blink tags, obviously... ;-)

Nice pulser. Can I wire the outputs in series? I have this 400V Pockels cell....

I'm showing white and light brown. If you made the white a little creamier, it would look better. Also it needs some white space for logical groupings, e.g.

OUTPUTS

• Four individually-isolated transformer-coupled positive pulses

(white space)

(white space)

Max duty cycle 0.2% at 100 volts, 5% at 5 volts Max pulse width 200 ns at 100 volts, 825 ns at 5 volts Min pulse width 8 ns

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I'm running all default card settings, "generic monitor", 32-bit color, Planar LCD, auto setup. The computer is an HP ProLiant "server" so it probably has a minimal generic video card... not a game machine!

This is cool:

On my screen, a lot of the lighter colors just look white.

We're currently using color 0xEEEEEE, 93/93/93, which sounds like pale grey to me. We'll try some others.

I do want everybody to be able to see this. I wonder how it looks on a tablet.

Changed: this very minute it's Almond, 94/87/80, which I can see now but other people see as rather dark, sort of orange.

All these colors change a lot as you move your head around. I wish LCDs were fast enough that monitors could have b+w pixels with RGB sequential backlights.

John

It's not my monitor that matters. It's all the other monitors out there in the world.

John

I'll point this out to The Brat, except that all the stuff that's flagged as errors seems to work.

John

How fast do you need to pulse it? Would a snappy falling edge and a sluggish rise be ok? Capacitance?

...and I question the wisdom of specifying the width of elements in pixels (beyond 5px for e.g. borders). These days (well really, always) you never know what device someone will use to view your site.

We have hooks for using 200 volt fets and a 2:1 step-up transformer. We would lose a little speed. How much load capacitance do you have, and how much speed do you want?

John