Re: Proposal: syntax highlight in html manual - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Susanne Ebrecht
Subject Re: Proposal: syntax highlight in html manual
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Msg-id 4DA5C5E4.8090102@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: syntax highlight in html manual  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 13.04.2011 17:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, there are very few things in the world that I hate more than
> randomly multicolored text.  Almost always, some of it is unreadable
> in a particular viewing context because of poor contrast.  And as
> often as not, the stuff that does stand out isn't the most important
> parts of the text.
>
> So no, this isn't a direction I want to see the Postgres documentation
> take.
Tom,

as color blind (blue blind (tritanope)) person I just can say thanks for
that
statement.

Colored text / background is always horrible for color blinds.
The best always is black on white or vise versa.

Susanne
P.S.: btw. my google chrome color filter usually makes the postgresql
elephant
either green or pink

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