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		ridiculous_fish on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Decline of Usability If you have a giant full-screen window with tabs, inactive controls are never visible, so there is no reason to make an inactive appearance.

saagarjha on April 17, 2020 [–]

I was going to make a comment about how this might be a mobile thing, where focus is less of an issue because everything is fullscreen, but now iPad does multiple windows and has the same focus problem…

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