Go Dark and Save the Environment
The online buzz over “going dark” began in earnest last January after Mark Ontkush, a self-described “green computing evangelist,” wrote a blog post concerning environmentally friendly Web design. Ontkush claimed that if a popular site such as Google switched its home page background color from white to black, it could save hundreds of megawatt hours a year.
I read this article over at BusinessWeek.com some months ago and thought to myself that it really was bordering on the ridiculous. No matter how energy conscious one gets, there are so many other ways to save electricity than to force-fit your design in to a dark palette.
I can’t even see myself using this as an excuse to justify a colour scheme because it’d sound ridiculous.
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Oh please, what is the use of saving the environment if you can no longer appreciate it? Ouch! just reading Going Dark hurt my eyes.
Environment…The environment is the people the people who live on the earth!
I agree that going dark is silly thing, I am sure there are other ways that are much better,
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