In the what-were-they-thinking department, here’s a quiz:
See this next Windows Vista screen. In three seconds or less, determine how many list items are selected:
You can’t figure it out? Hint: the answer is not three.
You still can’t figure it out?
The answer is two. Yes, two. In the screen snapshot above, only “RoboHelp Office” and “SuperLab 4.0″ are selected. The first folder, “Merge Utility”, only happens to have the mouse cursor pointing at it. But someone at Microsoft thought that it would be a great idea to have the selection and hover colors be so similar.
Brilliant, huh?
Interesting, and thanks for the post on my blue article! I know that highlight color is selectable in macs, but there is no mouseover color. I don’t see why they added it, and it does seem gratuitous. Not as gratuitous as all these gradients, though. Seriously, selected in mac is solid, will there be some gradient backlash someday that the pseudo 3-D look gets a bit tiresome when used everywhere?