sapphire scribbles

Mixed Modalities

Every now and again, I type something into the Firefox location bar, notice the thing I want is highlighted, and hit Enter. Then a thing I don't want appears.

Huh? What happened?

For some reason, my eyes gloss over the super heavy highlight that my entry of cons will run a search for that text, and they see the mouseover highlight for the cloud console link that I actually want to go to.

So I hit Enter, and I get an explanation about Lisp instead. Along with the frustration that this happened again.

I think the main problem is that the upper highlight is so heavy, it looks like a heading instead. Meanwhile, the enticing-but-wrong mouse highlight is a much lighter, more classic shading. The mouse pointer is also hidden while typing, so it's not "obviously" a mouse interaction cue.

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