Ok, here's an observation I have made.
When you see older aircraft or pictures of them, you see the portion of the nose in front of the cockpit windows painted matt black, evidently to prevent glare. Even darker coloured aircraft, such as olive drab Daks, had this feature.
Here is an example:
File:C-74 long beach.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now I get to the point:
Modern airliners are overwhelmingly white and usually fairly shiny, why do they not have such anti-glare markings? I've never noticed if they have matt, non reflective areas in front of the cockpit. Or is it that the nose drops away so steeply gare isn't a problem?