kasia in a nutshell

I'm on Winows and I think this current blue theme looks nice.

Kasia in a nutshell, is now the multi-colored handy reference to Kasia with cookies and many style sheets?

Yes I know.

*ducks due to run-on*

I am using IE6 on windows and you are right - your new stylesheet does trouble me. Not the colors or the layout - they are nice. But some of the text just vanishes. I get to see them only when I drag my mouse over a blank area. Then again vanishes when i drag it again the other way. I think it is more of a bug than by design - but irritating nonetheless.

Isn't the usual cause of difference due to the "gamma" of the system being different? I remember that was always the reason images looked so much different on SGIs - they had a realistically calibrated gamma curve, and actually obeyed settings in image metadata, where other systems would ignore the image settings and use a (different) default curve. I'd expect that if what SGI did was "different but more correct", that Apple would likely take the same path.

There used to be a fair tutorial (and some good self-calibrating sample images) in the XV sources. Unfortunately I haven't looked at them in years, and don't remember much more than the above...

Mark is right, gamma is different. In addition the powerbook's TFTs arent the best option to think in color calibration universally speaking, they have a high contrast and the color displayed usually looks slightly different even with the angle (change the resolution, and oh surprise). They work fine for programming needs or sales people who have to show things, but not for windows compatibility in color terms. Another option is to use the old list hex colors and give them a try.

Anayway the color incompatible are them, with a 99.7% of uncalibrated screens, bad contrast an luminosity settings, but thats life.

Mark is right, gamma is different. In addition the powerbook's TFTs arent the best option to think in color calibration universally speaking, they have a high contrast and the color displayed usually looks slightly different even with the angle (change the resolution, and oh surprise). They work fine for programming needs or sales people who have to show things, but not for windows compatibility in color terms. Another option is to use the old list hex colors and give them a try, or the adaptative palette, but it work only on images as far as i know.

Anayway the color incompatible are them, with a 99.7% of uncalibrated screens, bad contrast an luminosity settings, but thats life.

soz the almost clone comment, I was on a Wintel :P

Did you read books from Lynda Weinman?
You should find good tricks about web colors.
See there for example : "Creative HTML Design.2" (http://www.htmlbook.com/).

To me this colour combination looks just fine, beautiful even. Of course being colour-impaired might add some bias....

And to add something, your current theme mirrors one I was working on. The colours that is. All this makes me wonder what your designs look like on a Mac

Did just that and I love my powerbook. You're right, colors are so much better on it.

Coming from the Graphic Design world of many years ago, we would design things on the Mac, and then view them using Windows NT and whatever browsers were popular 7 or 8 years ago, and just mutter "Poor Windows-using bastards..."

Cool! JavaDocs!

hah... looking at the world...

... through a rose colored mac ...

:D

cheers!

Kasia, definitely calibrate your monitor. OSX 10.3 has a quite good calibration tool built-in to the monitor system preference. In my experience, Apple displays' default calibrations have actually been quite atrocious.

Also, when in doubt, add contrast.

Looks good here. On the other hand... I'm both on a Powerbook AND have little to no taste.

0:)

You could even have a bunch of "alternate stylesheet" tags like at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html

All sorts of fun to be had with style..

Looks good on bot my iMac and Powerbook! Oh wait, looks crappy on Virtual PC!! What a perfect piece of software, down to the colors! ;)

"How can anyone do graphical design on a mac?"

Very easily, for a long time Macs were THE thing to do design on, of course eventually the market got bigger.

It's not just the Gamma that is different, in OSX we now have Quartz rendering which does nice smooth anti-alaising ( I know I know, anti-alaising is supposed to do smoothing, but it depends on the algorythm you use ;).

Anyway, bugger them all - you're a Mac User, it is always going to look prettier on a Mac, get used to it, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

And to all you people still using IE - SHAME ON YOU !

We can join you somewhat in the field there.

XFT anti-aliasing rocks with Firefox and Epiphany on my Slackware box.