The menu text is also has underlining. I think this was a learnable indicator of clickability, since you'd often see clickable things with an underline (e.g. fo

The menu text is also has underlining. I think this was a learnable indicator of clickability, since you'd often see clickable things with an underline (e.g. form buttons), especially once the old web took off with underlined links. Compared to now when you literally just guess what's clicable. "Oh, is this thing where it says 'on: What Was the Microsoft Network' a link back to the main article? No idea, but I'll hover over it and see." Thankfully at least desktop web browsers change the pointer to indicate clickability - on my phone or in desktop apps I just have to try to activate everything to find out. Not to say there's been no improvements in design - there's now a consistent symbol to say "there's a menu behind this" which is not exactly learnable but at least it's redeployable on multiple systems. And toolbar buttons have got more pixels in them now then before (are they larger? i don't think so but maybe), and usually a bit more spacing, so misclicks are less likely.