Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:38:49 +0000, Richmond wrote:

But the 'paper' colour was dazzling, and in the early days VDUs were at
50-60hz and I could see the flashing.

There could have been a point about refresh rates. I used the original
small-screen Macintosh a lot in the mid-1980s, which as you know used a
light background when everybody else was still dark, and that had a 60Hz
(actually 60.15Hz) refresh. It was fine when I looked at it directly, but
I could see the flicker in my peripheral vision.

Then I went to a Macintosh II, with a bigger screen (13” or 14”, depending
on how you measured it), with a 67Hz refresh. That higher rate worked well
at that larger size.