Re: [Lynx-dev] link background in lynx-2.8.6-27

[David Woolley]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> well, early on (before color), black text on a white background was
> the usual.  But with colors, for quite a while white text on a black
> background was the rule.  Recently I've seen some black-on-white

Are you sure?  All the early monochrome displays I encountered were 
green or orange on black.  In some cases that was due to the actual 
technology (vector displays with real time refresh, or onto a storage 
tube), but the main reason was that the eye is more sensitive to flicker 
in large areas of light colour than in small areas of light colour, 
allowing the use of low refresh rates possibly also compounded with 
interlaced displays.

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