IME light-gray on white actually tends to be more readable on PCs than Macs due to the still-rather-different default gamma setup/color profiles. Cheaper PC screens especially often default to darker, bluer shifts.
I normally hate comments that simply criticize something not related to the content of the article, but in this case I found the lack of contrast made the article basically unreadable (on a MBP, using either the internal screen or a nice external display).
I normally hate comments that simply criticize something not related to the content of the article, but in this case I found the lack of contrast made the article basically unreadable (on a MBP, using either the internal screen or a nice external display).