Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
- Subject: Re: Blurry is the New Sharp
- From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:55:02 -0800
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
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 6 Jan 2015, at 4:11 am, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Glad I'm not the only one thinking this.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> People suggested that OS X had jumped the shark with Lion. If so, we're into Jaws VIII vs. Godzilla 3D territory now.
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> --Graham
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