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Up until recently it's always been easy for me to justify the use of CRT because simply put, the majority of users will be looking at the site through CRT monitors. If the site looked slightly different (despite being websafe) on a TFT screen...that was no real concern of mine, and either way there was nothing I could do about it.
But, all that is changing. As prices fall and more and more people start using TFT screens, is there any point sticking with designing on a CRT?
Has anyone else designed a site on a TFT, only to view it on a CRT and for it to look slightly (and occasionally quite hugely) different?
The trick is to design your site so that pages look OK on both (even though they may look different).
My TFT when viewed straight on looks brighter than the average CRT (or even average TFT) and that has a knock-on effect to contrast between certain colours. I find that darker shades of blue in particular look great on my TFT but simply don't work so well on the average CRT and TFT. So I avoid using darker shades of blue as a result.
My method is hit and miss, but I have a selection of CRT's and TFT's and I try to look at pages on everything and find the best mean average.
I think you have to account for both camps. More and more people are buying TFT displays.
This is analogous to music. Everyone has a different sounding hi-fi. In recording studios they accordingly use monitor speakers which are specifically designed to sound as "neutral" as possible, in an attempt to make sure a recording sounds as good (faithfull) as possible on any stereo.
Is it a case of either having an accurate monitor (probably a CRT still at the moment), or just perhaps about "knowing" your monitor?
TJ
