I'm going to be 51 years old soon. I spend all day long staring at a computer. I've had trouble with eye fatigue for years.
Semitransparent windows drive me nuts; to the extent I can turn off the effect I do so. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> On 6 Jan 2015, at 4:11 am, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: >> >> I honestly thought that in the post-Steve-Jobs era we at least wouldn't get >> these pointless gee-wow visual effects anymore; he was always very >> susceptible to them. > > > Glad I'm not the only one thinking this. > > It's not just pointless eye-candy, it's actually contrary to usability. In > Safari, I'd come to the conclusion that the window frame "tint" was an > indication of whether you were in a private session or a non-private one, but > after some time realised that the "tint" was merely an effect of what colour > the content of the web page happened to be that had been scrolled up behind > the title bar. A small thing, but nevertheless misleading. > > It's also completely arbitrary; what meaning does having a blurry translucent > background in a souce list (but not for other window content) actually > convey? The whole idea should be canned before it becomes more pervasive. > It's already a nuisance and causes numerous graphics glitches (e.g weird > black outlines around a non-active progress bar when on a vibrant > background). Developers have better things to worry about. > > People suggested that OS X had jumped the shark with Lion. If so, we're into > Jaws VIII vs. Godzilla 3D territory now. > > --Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
