[publican-list] RFC: Modified JBoss brand (was Re: RFE for Publican Brands)

[Joshua Wulf]

When I read messages in Thunderbird with HTML view turned on, "responded
to" text is indicated exactly the same way: with a vertical bar. I can,
and do immediately skip over it (if I am already following the thread)
to get to the reply text.

It's a subtle visual cue that I wasn't even aware of consciously, but
was subconsciously using all the time.

It rose to conscious awareness after a subconscious processor flagged it
as "recently discussed" and brought it to conscious attention.

We want our visual styling to be *transparent*. That is: subconsciously
processed, and invisible to the conscious mind.

At the moment it's very much trying to grab conscious attention, and
there is just not enough of that to go round.



On 10/13/2010 11:12 AM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 10:59 AM, Darrin Mison wrote:
>> I like the way the <example> example is formatted in the DocBook
>> guide.  
>>
>> Title at the top, vertical bar down the left.  
>>
>> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/example.html
>>
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> 
> Yes, I also like this.
> 
> The vertical bar of the docbook styling is like indentation, but it's an
> absolute visual cue, rather than a relative one, so it doesn't have a
> problem with page flow.
> 
> A complete border breaks the vertical flow of the document with a
> horizontal boundary.
> 
> Both the vertical bar and the complete border clearly demark the scope;
> however, the complete border actually lends itself to readers skipping
> the unit.
> 
> The subconscious reasoning is:
> "Since the unit has been completely encapsulated and separated from the
> text, it's obviously not necessary" SKIP
> 
> The human mind is designed with many subconscious processors that
> discard information before it reaches the conscious mind. This makes
> every day existence possible. Without it information overload would
> occur within seconds. How many nerve endings are there in the human
> body, each sending tactile information to the brain? How much of that
> are we aware of from moment to moment? Generally only the flashing red
> lights. Once you get shot three or four times your brain starts to
> ignore those as well.
> 
> We emulate the action of the subconscious mind, which aids us in
> processing information with scarce conscious attention resources, when
> we use mail filtering rules.
> 
> So I would click "Like" on a vertical bar over the thin, rounded border;
> but there wasn't one on the options page.
> 
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