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Just clicking around I accidentally highlighted the background element or something, which caused the whole page to turn blue. Then no matter what I clicked I couldn't get it to un-select. Making everything blue didn't ruin the experience or anything but it was a little annoying. Safari 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8) and Google Chrome 138.0.7204.93.

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I had the same reaction, but it's intentional. Open the Preferences app, check Decorate Desktop, and then select something other than Pale Blue Dot from the color palette picker.

Unless the canvas element itself is being selected - which would be a big oversight on my part, that's the default color palette, which is a blue tint to mimic the Lisa's CRT. Right now, it isn't applied until the settings start loading.

If this is causing any confusion I might put a priority on saving this setting in a way where it can be applied immediately as the page is loaded.

I think you and other commenters are correct - it's just the theming. I can't get it to not have the tint on startup and it goes away when changing the theme as rgovostes described. The reason I was confused was because it starts out as black-and-white and then turns blue, and the blue is basically the same color as selecting text! Oh well, I feel silly now.

Yeah. This is part of why I wanted to get this on places like HN eventually. This is valuable user feedback! For the longest time I kept this project totally secret.

What I'll probably do is serialize the setting data to localstorage so it's available before the system starts up and loads from IndexedDB.

Update: this is done now!

Same on iphone. Maybe a swipe or something and it selected the whole page blue

Edit: doing nothing will do the autoselect. Odd

I think that tint is intended to emulate the look of the Lisa CRT.

Yes, that's correct. There's a variety of palettes to choose from in the preferences!

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