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It looks as if the proper behavior of the page appearance is somewhat dependent upon Javascript being enabled.

I have NoScript installed in Firefox, and by default this extension blocks the execution of Javascript on sites that I have not explicitly whitelisted (either temporarily or permanently).

When I initially surfed to this page, the Specifications table showed up with only white backgrounds.

When I told NoScript to temporarily enable scripting for this site, and then re-opened the Specifications table, it showed up with alternating white and tan-ish background to the text.

Looking at the page source, I see some style-sheets being loaded at the beginning. In the actual Specifications table, it appears that all of the rows are invoking exactly the same formatting... the background color is not explicitly specified in the table rows.

When I look up higher in the page, I see a whole bunch of Javascript entitled "TABLE COLOR ALTERNATION", which has logic that changes an attribute of table rows to "even" or "odd".

So... the alternating backgrounds won't show up if a "safe surfing" feature such as NoScript is used, because the client-side scripting used to toggle the rows between different colors will be disabled.

You could probably eliminate this dependency by actually generating the table with in-line "even" and "odd" attributes (which would then control style-sheet behavior), rather than depending on a client-side script to do this at the viewer's browser.

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I see the bands in your .GIF file, too. And I am on a laptop with an LCD screen. 1920x1080x32. Kind of washed out, though. But visible. On desktop w/phosphor, looks better.

On the LCD, I tried setting things to x8 color and the bands disappeared. Setting them to x16 kept the bands intact, but more washed out than in x32.

Jon

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I used to use a big ol' AR RF power amp for this job, but it stayed at IBM when I left. (Second anniversary is coming up...best disaster I ever suffered. Consulting is fun.) :)

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Try to set the monitor to "sRGB" instead of one of the Kelvin temps. I haven't done it with mine because I never really use this machine for photos but I can still see the shades of colors quite well.

It's almond here as well. Looks nice.

Not much on my monitor. When I view it 45 degrees from the side it does become a wee bit more reddish but barely noticeable. Maintaining that extreme viewing angle for a longer time would either result in back pain or me falling off the chair ;-)

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I see almost every single distinct color shown there in a distinct color on my LCD display. Three exceptions, I think. I'm using a Lenovo T510 with NVIDIA NVS 3100M with a

1920x1080 LCD display. Not all LCDs are alike.

Jon

Excellent catch. Same experience here.

Jon

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I don't want to fix my video. It's apparently a worst-case tester for the web site.

I'll tell Bratinella.

I explained the hex conversion thing to her, so she can play at the basic RGB level now.

John

Based on feedback so far, a lot of them aren't.

John

I'll tell The Brat. Six months ago, she started with "HTML For Dummies."

John

John Lark>[...]all the stuff that's flagged as errors seems to work

Yup. *This* week with *that* version of *that* browser.

Here is a good description of why standards compliance is good for Web pages:

...and being able to put one of these on your page

shows that you respect standards. (A Good Thing(tm) for technologists of all stripes.)

The guys at an institute in Hannover, Germany, used avalanche as well. But it has the downside of a lot of jitter when exact pulse repetions are key, and that bothered them. However, they didn't care much about the rise time. Their voltage was 4.3kV and we mulled it over on a European NG. My suggestion was to use a B/W television flyback tube. Lo and behold they could buy lots of NOS of the old PL81 at a local shop. For under two bucks! This is a 1950's era tube, from when CRTs were still quite rounded at the corners. Back when the Andy Griffith Show wasn't out yet.

Sometimes you can snap one up at an auction. Couple other options:

a. Ham radio power amps. They cost a whole lot less than AR gear. Meantime you can get wideband transistorized ones.

b. Roll your own using big fat RF transistors. NXP makes some nice ones and not too expensive. Unfortunately they don't seem to understand the importance of SPICE models when it comes to apps like this and consequently don't furnish any. These guys do, if you can work with RF FETs:

Esepcially if it came with a nice comfy pension benefit and health plan :-)

Oh yeah!

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erase it.

Sure looks like it. The "fix" is usually rather easy, it's one of the settings menues on the monitor itself. Before buying this monitor I read some reviews. Some said that the color rendering is almost useless unless switched to sRGB but my experience was different.

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I get all white.

I captured the screen and posted it here.

I am using opera and an ATI9600 video card set for 32 bit colour

You can do surprising thinks with a hunk of coax and a relay, if exact trigger timing doesn't metter.

John

Or with a transistor and coax if trigger timing does matter :-)

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I have a yellow-ish background in the even rows (counting from 1). Time for a joke: Jews are never sure about their religion which is why they call themselves Jew-ish. Sorry but that just popped into my mind. No harm intended.

Read a CSS manual. Especially the part that covers differences between browsers.

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Both the page and Jan's screen shot look fine on my monitor (running Firefox under Ubuntu 10.04). Are you sure you don't just have a crappy monitor?

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Hey, this is Wikipedia Eggshell, 94/92/84:

which seems to be a pretty good compromise. The current theory is to not have any of the close too close to 100, so that there's always contrast from any angle.

John