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Re:Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog by rconti on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:51PM (#16224665)
Odd sidenote -- when I was growing up in the world of Mac Classics and Windows 3.1, the Mac users were the highlighters of the group. I was a Windows (okay, DOS->Windows->Linux) guy, so I didn't.

I started using OS X in around 2002 and became a highlighter. I always wondered why.

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Re:Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog by dfee on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:27PM (#16224997)
Perhaps it’s because the highlighting - being a cooler shade of blue - is less jarring and easier on the eyes.

Windows: https://www.wintools.info/images/ccp/Highlight-default.png

Mac: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Qu...

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Re:Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog by SllX on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:11PM (#16225871)
For me it was the reverse. I was a random highlighter since I was a kid on Windows machines, but after I bought my first Mac the behavior just kind of stopped.

I also had another habit I dropped, in part because Mac OS X never supported it, but on Windows I would middle click in the middle of the screen and position the cursor just under the, well, scroll anchor I guess I could call it, leaving the page to auto scroll at a comfortable speed while I took my hands off the mouse and just read. If I recall correctly, if I did it just right, then the page would not just auto scroll, but highlight everything along the way.

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Re:Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog by yuchi on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:53PM (#16224693)
Happened to me too.

Most of us became mac users with Mac Books, and they always had an incredibly responsive touchpad.

I believe it’s enough responsive to let us express our finger tics through it. The cursor actually become an extension of the finger.

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Re:Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog by lucideer on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:49PM (#16225702)
Current macOS user, but only a very recent convert, and I've been a highlighter as long as I can remember. Though I was previously a Linuxer, so maybe it's non-Windows or terminal correlated.
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