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This reminds me of something (perhaps Raymond Chen?) writing about how people think selection coloring is just an easy "invert the colours" and pointed out a mi
by olliej 4y ago
This reminds me of something (perhaps Raymond Chen?) writing about how people think selection coloring is just an easy "invert the colours" and pointed out a midrange selection color would make that inversion not work.
I think I read that while I was at uni, so well over 20 years ago now. GitHub messing this up now seems disappointing (and aren't they part of MS now? shouldn't this be on the standard "new ui QA tasks" list?)
- layer8 4y agoIt’s not like MS has had a particular lucky hand in UI over the past 10+ years, and also AFAIK GitHub is still a relatively independent operation.
- planede 4y agoThe terminal emulator I use uses the strategy of swapping the background and foreground colors. This is decent most of the time, but it also has some undesirable corner cases: 1. You can't use selection as a hack to make text more legible. Some terminal emulator always use black on white for selection, which helps in this case. 2. If you select a region with the same background and foreground colors, then the selection itself is invisible.