You know, I'm really not usually too picky about this stuff, but I have to say, this is an extreme example (for me, at least) of presentation overwhelming content - I started to read that page, and the combination of the font size, the layout, and (mainly) the color scheme literally made me dizzy within seconds. I actually can't get through it, the text starts to pulsate on the page as I look at it and it's so distracting that I can't parse the content.
Maybe a great product, maybe even something revolutionary, but in all likelihood I'll never find out because of the website's color scheme.
It's funny, I'd always heard that white-on-black was considered bad design, but up until now I never really understood what "they" meant by that...
I see this complaint all the time, and it's really annoying. It's just a matter of opinion. I program in vim with light-colored text on a black background. For the longest time, I used the compiz window manager so that I could invert the color of my Firefox window so that web pages would have light text on dark backgrounds.
I'm betting that the real issue is alternating from one to the other. If you spend all your time looking at dark on light and then try to switch, I can see how it could be an issue. But the opposite is also true. At least light text on a dark background has another good thing going for it... you're not staring at what is effectively a light bulb.
Either way, can we please stop talking about this? At least half of the submissions that lead to such a page have a comment like this. It comes off as complaining and laziness, since if you really wanted to read it, you can simply highlight the text, use copy-paste, or any number of other solutions (the "No Style" suggestion was a good one).
I think it's a matter of preference. My Emacs is set up with an off-white font and a fairly dark background, and, under most sources of light, it tires me out less than the glow of white backgrounds.
In any case, that page is just text. Copy and paste it into a text editor and read it. It's a pretty clever idea, and I'll definitely keep it in the back of my mind for those times that I spend hacking C++.
Color preferences are a strange beast. I use green on black in emacs, and white on black in terminal windows and I'm pretty happy with things that way. But I have a terrible time reading webpages with any dark background. Wish I knew why.
Maybe a great product, maybe even something revolutionary, but in all likelihood I'll never find out because of the website's color scheme.
It's funny, I'd always heard that white-on-black was considered bad design, but up until now I never really understood what "they" meant by that...