Eye strain in web pages. White backgrounds hurt my eyes.

[quizzelbuck]

Guys. Its 2am. I want to be online, but my eyes hurt. Any programs or plugins or options or deals with the devil that will net me a way to get my browser to switch colors around for me? and i really would rather not mess with scripting.

 

[quizzelbuck]

Oh, never mind me. I found that the firefox browser has some color options. I basically set every page to default to some thing that looks like maddox.xmission.com all the time. This is a lot better on my eyes.

 

[nova2]

use this greasemonkey script.
it will be better overall because you will still be able to see certain graphic buttons that firefox would otherwise remove.

/* -*-mode:JavaScript;coding:latin-1;-*- Time-stamp: "2006-12-08 18:21:57 AKST"
##### This is a Greasemonkey user script.
##### To use it, you need Greasemonkey first: [url="http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/"]http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/[/url]
*/
// ==UserScript==
// @name          general_Greyer
// @namespace     [url="http://website.com/"]http://website.com/[/url]
// @description	  original code from All Sites: Page Recolorization by george
// @version       0.0.3
// @include       [url]http://*.*.*[/url]
// @include       [url]http://*.*/*[/url]
// @author        various
// ==/UserScript==

/*
> works on anandtech forums without breaking visited link colors.
> wont remove button graphics so eg, you will see phpbb 3 buttons - unless you use background in place of background-color
*/

(function()
{

   var newSS;
   var styles = '* { background-color: #999 ! important; color: #000 !important } :link, :link * { color: #551a8b !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #2DFE9E !important }';
   
   newSS = window.document.createElement('link');
   newSS.rel='stylesheet';
   newSS.href='data:text/css,' + escape(styles);

	window.document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);


})();

 

[nordloewelabs]

an easier solution is to change your monitor settings. adjust brightness & contrast. l always lacrimate at default settings. it will look strong at first, but soon you will out used to it and your eyes will thank you.

 

[quizzelbuck]

yeah, adjusting monitor brightness to and fro is out of the question because its way to inconvienient. Wouldnt be able to play games with out fussing over brightness settings.
My compromise is this: IE7 stays normal, Firefox goes black. When i need to see original source of site, IE7. When i need to do long term functioning, Firefox will be my main windows to the internet.

 

[law9933]

quizzelbuck

Where in FF is that feature?

 

[quizzelbuck]

tools>options> under the content tab is where to look. Color of background, text, and the like can be found there.

 

[law9933]

Thank you, I like FF, but don't know all of its abilities. (maybe it is just a remembering issue)
I have seen/hate a website with dark blue background with black lettering (I don't understand that??)

 

[0roo0roo]

bias lighting. stick a small lamp behind your monitor. i use one of those ikea glass grono lamps
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00095588 ~10 bucks
ikea sells some pretty low wattage cf for it, down as far as 4watts ithink.
its just to make sure theres not a stark contrast of dark around and behind your monitor that creates eye strain.
http://www.instructables.com/i...lighting-on-the-cheap/ this dude does it the hard way

 

[Modelworks]

Blink often.
Sounds simple , but they did studies that show people reading online, or playing games, get so focused on the screen that they don't blink.
It dries out the eyes.

The other thing is to close your eyes for about 5 secs every half hour.

I have to sit in front of a monitor almost 12 hours a day, and both those things helped more than anything else.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: quizzelbuck
Guys. Its 2am. I want to be online, but my eyes hurt. Any programs or plugins or options or deals with the devil that will net me a way to get my browser to switch colors around for me? and i really would rather not mess with scripting.

My color scheme on Seamonkey cousin to Firefox It is easy on the eyes.