Buttons and Bookmarklets

Typewriting might not be more annoying than the piano when played by a near relation.  It might always be a bit more annoying than clicking.

Using keystrokes to launch applications or execute tasks can be done whatever lie in front of the eyes.

Using clicks to scroll, select an action or invoke a menu can be quick when lucky.

But one is seldom lucky, or one seldom recalls being lucky.  So there is a need to improve luck.  Hence my love for bookmarlets.

Bookmarklets lie in front of my eyes.  They can be nurtured to automate idiosyncratic tasks.  They can simplify the use of a service.

Buttons work the other way around.  Readers get served buttons on websites, nowadays.  This alienates readers into specific services and standard workflows.

I prefer bookmarklets to buttons.

Clicking Colors

An hypothesis for typographical endeavours. Black or white for text to be read. Colors for links.

What about red? For white-black-red pages, red can be links. Which makes every links an emergency. Hence the need to quiet down with a touch of light blue.

What about boxes? Shades of gray. Something neutral, near the background. As long as the reader recognizes where to click, i.e. on text emphasized by colors.

Follow-up on the experiment:

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