> > -the red cursor is a BAD idea. remember there are
> people that are color
> > blind
>
> It's a _good_ idea (at least for non-color blind
> people; maybe we should
> change the appearance of it a bit as well for these
> cases). People
> actually know now that something has changed (the
> switch to overwrite
> mode).
Providing visual feedback (such as changing the
caret's color) is a *good* idea. Perhaps we should
make the caret N times wider than a normal cursor as
well.
The red color is a visual feedback. It is not wrong to
use color as a visual feedback, even though there are
color-blind people in the world. (OT: Red-Green color
blindness is by far the most common type of color
blindness. Such a person wouldn't have much trouble
telling our red caret from a black one). The problem
is when it is the *only* feedback given. Clearly this
is not the case, as AbiWord also has:
1) "Ins" changed to "Ovr" in the status bar
2) The behavior of entering a character changes
and the proposed
3) Making the caret wider
Traffic lights use color and people seem to get bye
just fine. That's because there is an ordering to the
lights acting as an additional indicator.
Dom
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