Make it easier to see what is selected in preferences
6 Oct 2022 16:47:19 UTC
Topic 228311
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On the page https://einsteinathome.org/account/prefs/project there are YES/NO options to use GPU etc. On some screens, these are indistinguishable. Please use something other than black vs dark grey! If you must avoid colours (some people still use black and white screens?!) then use a lighter grey, for example the colour of the feathers in my picture is a nice medium grey, the beak is black, and the face is white. Don't use something with a smaller difference than those.
It's also not obvious whether grey or black would indicate the selected one! Perhaps just use tickboxes?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
looks fine to me, and about
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looks fine to me, and about the same saturation difference as your avatar for the black to grey to white. maybe even moreso, since the black used for the selection is darker than your bird's beak in the avatar.
try increasing the contrast of your monitor, or get a better monitor. the project prefs page looks totally fine though, very easy to tell what is what.
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Doesn't make sense, this
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Doesn't make sense, this image is absolutely perfect on my ALMOST NEW monitor which shows way sharper colours on photos and videos, and I've just calibrated it using software.
https://www.krazyblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6291.png
I can clearly differentiate every single grey and they sensibly gradually change from 0 to 100%.
I can see the difference in the text on my older cheaper monitors.... perhaps they're showing the grey lighter than it should be?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Perhaps it's the resolution?
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Perhaps it's the resolution? I have the text taking up a very small number of pixels. This is it zoomed in, and I can distinguish easily. But when each of those squares is only a pixel, is the monitor doing some antialiasing? Because the grey text them becomes black.
https://imgur.com/1hV01wL
Actually it looks like my browser has antialiased, why has it put a red tinge on the left and a blue tinge on the right? No wonder my monitor doesn't know what to display. Edge does the same. Why a different colour each side? To antialias grey, surely use shades of grey each side?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Also the other problem, why
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Also the other problem, why is black the one I've selected? I was assuming grey (being lighter) meant the option was switched on, like a lightbulb? What's wrong with tickboxes like every other project?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Ah, simply zooming in the
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Ah, simply zooming in the browser seems to make them clear. Windows or the browser is being very stupid with text which is very small.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Sorted. The monitor has
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Sorted. The monitor has "sharpness" which defaulted to 50%. Turning it to 0%, everything is easier to read! Using a magnifying glass, I saw it was somehow changing some green pixels (by that I mean the third of a pixel which is green) to white, which I didn't think LCD could do. For example black text on an orange background had a white shadow around it!
As for the strangeness of tinges on each side from the computer, I think that's a clever trick to take advantage of monitors having seperate red green and blue pixels in a precise order, to do better antialiasing.
I wonder, do modern screens have pixels which can be any colour? Is there a technology which can do this?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.