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Re:Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit by progrock on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @04:00AM (#5323648)
There's an easy solution for this:

As soon as you interact with the page, be it mouse, touch proximity, or keyboard, you could highlight clickable elements - perhaps with a border, perhaps links with an underline.

Then you have the best of both worlds.

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Re:Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit by gurkendoktor on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @08:31AM (#5331034)
Being able to almost interact with an element to check whether it is interactive is not the "best" of both worlds, it's a compromise.
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Re:Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit by progrock on Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:34AM (#5337012)
At least I posit 'a' solution! I'm not a fan of mystery meat navigation, and to be honest - there are plenty of sites - that use quite dumb non-intuitive UIs - including non obvious links and drop down menus. An intuitive navigational mode applied to web pages could really help.

I get what you are saying though. I'd envisage say, as soon as you tap the screen or move the mouse, all the navigational controls would be highlighted - rather than having to hover the mouse over something to see if it's a link or not.

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