| This post turned out to be wildly off-topic to the actual topic, but it's relevant for this subthread of the conversation and I've written so many words already that so I might as well post it: I believe that fullscreen notification got implemented exactly because of people not noticing their browser went into fullscreen mode. I agree with some other poster, that it's unreasonable to assume that a majority of people would actually read the message. Luckily, though, that's not actually necessary. It's enough for them to notice that there was something fading away. Something unexpected happened. Now it gets interesting: Regardless of people actively reading "Press [Esc]", as long as it was within their vision, their brain would still process it anyway. This means that, in the state of confusion caused by the fading text, they'd be wondering "what just happened?" and their brain would execute the command "press [Esc]" regardless of the text being actively read or not. The state of confusion causes the input to go right through, getting it executed, causing the user to press Escape. That's a really fucking neat confusion technique! PS: I'm not good at linking to topics so people gain better understanding, but I'll just read through some until I find good ones. Milton Erickson's confusion technique. ( https://www.scribd.com/document/179357099/Milton-Erickson-TH... ) Quora's ChatGPT ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-simple-pattern-interrupt-con... ) has a few good lines to write about a confusion technique called "pattern interrupt". This one here ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070912124017.h... ) is interesting. They either pretend, or are unaware of the fact, that they are using a confusion technique to program the client. |