Notices by Ænðr E. Feldstraw (aeveltstra@mastodon.social)

Hey, @Mastodon developers: your CSS colors my scrollbar black. Using advanced view in Firefox 81. Could you stop? Please let us determine the color of our scrollbars? Thanks.

#Usability #UX #gui

Responsible bit of CSS:
html {
scrollbar-color: #313543 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
}

Dear #software #security developers: if your (web) #form limits our #password length, it is a clear sign your software is NOT #hashing our passwords, but storing it in clear / #plaintext. This is a huge red flag for #cybersecurity, and makes it so that the security-aware among us will hesitate to sign up. #UserExperience #UX #privacy #encryption

A "back to top" button is an interface design element used only and exclusively on web sites. Do large text documents have it? No! Do books have it? No!

The only thing that comes close is the "rewind" button on movie and music players.

They were invented during a time when all computer users had keyboards with a Home button: the original "back to top". That home button is why large text documents don't need a separate button.

Mobile devices with no home button had yet to get popular.