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Flat design has been an absolute pox on the industry. Skeumorphism was also pretty bad (since it was basically just flat design with pictures). Windows Forms g

• Dwedit 2y ago
  Blinking cursor in textbox with gray background? That would be one case of "active and not editable".
  • Dalewyn 2y ago
    In Windows, the text cursor no longer blinks (more accurately it stops blinking after a few seconds, becoming static) in the interests of battery saving. At least I think it was battery saving, been months since I read it and my memory is foggy because it's fucking stupid. Even on desktops that don't have batteries.
  • XorNot 2y ago
    The problem is grey usually means "disabled" which also implies that data may be stale. As it is you can set a text box read only but active, but it does waste time since it doesn't code that it's not interactable visually (i.e. you have to make up a scheme). Basically it would've been nice to have a consistent background color or other visual cue which says "this will update, this is live, but you can't type here".