>Hi Kenneth,
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>I *do* agree with you. . . but with MS starting to proliferate these things, what real chance do we have????
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>>Someone (was it John?) pointed us to the Interface Hall of Fame and Shame a few days ago. I found it very enlightening and entertaining. Having a button be grey until the mouse passes over it is a perfect example of a misfeature, it must have been fun to code but it is worse than useless.

In the end, we'll be honoured as Great Masters of Programming when we make buttons which gradually gain color as mouse approaches, and gradually fade out as it moves away... and best of all is that we won't be required to have anything activated by these buttons. If they were used for anything, the whole artistic beauty of the GUI would be lost.