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Post by slide496 on Sept 26, 2015 20:44:13 GMT
Whoa the forum type size just got very large on my pc using google chrome- anyone else notice a change?
Its the same as ever on my mac.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 21:10:08 GMT
Nope. But my aging eyes would love it if the site suddenly inverted to black type against a white background....
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Post by pete1951 on Sept 27, 2015 10:38:55 GMT
Does having a black background use less power?
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Post by slide496 on Sept 27, 2015 11:13:10 GMT
Does having a black background use less power? Pt I don't think so as opposed to another color, its probably less cpu intensive than a large jpg for a background. Harriet |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 14:31:33 GMT
Does having a black background use less power? Pt Reading light type on a dark background is much more difficult, and tiring for the eyes. That's sort of Web Design Ergonomics 101. But it looks cooler... It's not a big deal when there's not too much text to read. But give it a try when there's several large paragraphs, or even several pages to read -- it's impossible. |
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Post by slide496 on Sept 27, 2015 15:21:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 15:53:51 GMT
"People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the “deformed” lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye." I developed an astigmatism only in my mid-40s or so, the fault of the eye muscles no longer being quite as young as they once were and just too lazy to bother to hold things straight. But I wonder if it's still only 50 percent of the population, considering the huge increase in myopia now that everyone spends all of their day at a screen? |
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Post by slide496 on Sept 27, 2015 16:17:57 GMT
I don't know whether there is an actual increase - the digital age might just dictate that more people come forward and get treatment where they didn't before and weren't reported. I have distance vision issues with astigmatism and have tinted monovision glasses set for reading a computer screen at sitting distance, one lense is for distance and the other for close up and they intersect. My screen also allows warm -cool light settings (5000k-9300k) and dimming of white. I am pretty comfortable with the forum as is - except not on chrome anymore  - I have gone firefox! |
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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 27, 2015 16:20:39 GMT
In twelve years of hosting this forum in these colours, only a couple of people have ever said anything about it.
For me it has nothing to do with how much power it uses, it was the colour scheme that I have used on album packages and that I built my website with in 1998, so the forum stayed with those colours.
I am currently building a new website. At the moment it is red and black with white type! ......maybe it shouldn't be, but I like the look of it.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Sept 27, 2015 16:23:15 GMT
So do I....
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Post by Stevie on Sept 27, 2015 17:04:13 GMT
I always set the Android app to black background. It's easier on the eyes when compared to a white background, end of. A white background soon becomes like looking at the moon through a binocular. I used to use a signature that had white script (ie, as distinct from text) on a black background so it blended in with the default forum background until it dawned on me that some might see that as a black box with white script if they had gone with a white background. My Android mail client (Kaiten) is set for a black background out of preference. My eyes are failing with age (as does everyone's north of fifty), but I don't understand configuring a website to be agreeable to what can only ever be a minority of people with vision issues. The best comment that I've read is the still small voice of calm pleading for the choice of backgrounds, and that is already freely available in the Android app. Windoze and Mac- I can't remember because it's been so long since I've used Bill's bilge to check in.
It's a red herring to hold that the black background saves energy compared to a white one (at least on modern flat screens).
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Post by slide496 on Sept 27, 2015 17:27:42 GMT
I don't care one way or the other, however the organization chooses to present its material graphically is generally fine with me except for this large type issue on chrome and I was just wondering if it was specific to my computer.
Both the forum and the original website work well for me and the main website displays uniformly and works well on all platforms, Android, Mac, PC and IOS - there is alot to be said for that - I look forward to the new site.
Lawd lawdy,
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 18:59:24 GMT
I doubt the color scheme has any effect on the amount of power the site uses, that wouldn't make sense.
Information on the events of Robert Johnson's life is rather scarce. From birth to his still-disputed burial place, his life has remained shrouded in mystery for more than half a century. Indeed, some early blues researchers encountered a difficult time finding any information about him, even in the years immediately after his death. Historians weren't even sure of the name of the man they were asking about. At various times in his life, and also in different communities, Robert went by the names Dodds, Moore, James, Barstow and Spencer, as well as that of his natural father, but never by that of his mother (Major) or of her second husband (Willis). Robert Johnson's mother was Julia Ann Majors, whose parents had been born into slavery. In 1889, she married Charles Dodds, a carpenter and furniture maker, also the son of former slaves. They owned their land and their house and were comparatively fairly well off. But, after narrowly avoiding the noose in Hazelhurst for injuring a prominent white man in a fight, Charlie changed his last name from Dodds to Spencer and fled to Memphis. Over the next couple of years Julia sent her ten children, one by one, except for her two daughters, to stay with their father in Memphis. While Charlie was there, he had taken a mistress and had two children by her. Meanwhile, Julia had taken up living with Noah Johnson, an itinerant sharecropper by whom she conceived Robert. Robert Leroy Johnson was born out of wedlock, on May 8, 1911, near the town of Hazelhurst, Mississippi. For the first few years of Robert's life, he lived with his mother moving from plantation to plantation. In 1914, Julia took her family to Memphis where she, her ten children, Charlie Dodds, his mistress, and their two children, apparently got on fairly well together. However, Charlie resented young Robert, the outside child, evidently already having discipline problems. Julia disappeared not long after the family arrived in Memphis, returning two years later to ask for Charlie's permission to remarry. So when Robert was 4 or 5 years old, he went to live with his mother and her second husband, Willie 'Dusty' Willis, in the shanty-town of Commerce, near Robinsonville, Mississippi. Robert showed no interest in farming, preferring to play music and trade songs with his friends. In 1927, he got his first guitar. In 1929, at the age of 18, Robert fell in love with 16 year old Virginia Travis. They were married on 16th February, and the young couple moved in with Robert's half-sister Carrie. Robert then did more farm work than playing music. In August, Virginia became pregnant. On 10th April 1930, both she and the baby died in labour. A few months after Virginia died the popular Son House came to Robinsonville with Willie Brown. Robert constantly badgered the older Son House, who tried to teach him some guitar, but Robert showed little promise. He would occasionally borrow a guitar when House or Brown were having a break, driving the audience out of the juke joints with his inexperienced playing. During late 1930 or early 1931, Robert went to Hazelhurst to search for his father. This is the period of his life when he reputedly disappeared to 'sell his soul to the devil'. In Hazelhurst, he began taking guitar lessons from Ike Zinnerman. Johnson was a reputed ladies' man to whom women "were like motel or hotel rooms," in the words of Johnny Shines, who frequently travelled with him. However, in May of 1931, during his stay in Hazelhurst, he married Calletta "Callie" Craft, an affectionate woman, twice married with three children. With Callie, Robert established a pattern that he was to follow in the coming years wherever he went. Seeking out older, often less attractive women, or a homely young girl, for whom there would likely be no competition, he would exchange his attentions for their kindness and a place to stay. One researcher found at least half a dozen women who had relationships of this kind with Robert, most of them lasting two or three weeks. Whilst many blues artists got nothing but a meal or free booze for their work, Robert usually had a little money too, which appealed to many local ladies.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 19:00:54 GMT
Here's the same post with a white background:  |
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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 27, 2015 19:06:41 GMT
These days most of my forum and Facebook activities are on my IPhone and iPad, which does not load in the forum's colours, just black type on a white background.
Shine On
Michael
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