Highlight active button

[humdinger]

I'm having trouble discerning the active button on an alert. The small blue outline looks nice and all, but it doesn't really catch your eye. Using much keyboard navigation, I need an unnecessary long time to figure out which but will take my return/space and "format c:\" or "cancel"...

I think, highlighting the active button would help with that.
See the alert now:

and highlighted:

Just keep it subtle enough.

[humdinger]

alert now

[humdinger]

alert with highlited botton

[phoudoin]

The good news is that none will "format c:\", ever! ;-)

[jackburton]

You're definitely right you can't tell very well the active button, but your solution doesn't help much either. Maybe it's just me getting old, but I had to keep looking at the two images for a couple of minutes before finding out what was different :-)

[humdinger]

Maybe my highlighting was _too_ subtle. :)
The right level has to be tested. I imagine that when using it, i.e. pressing tab or cursor keys, it's more visible when the highlighted button changes.

BTW, right now, the default button doesn't have a blue outline when the alert pops up. I think it should.

[stippi]

Actually I like this. It could indeed be experimented to find the right level. While experimenting, we could also experiment with subtle highlighting when the mouse hovers over a control.

[humdinger]

Mouseovers may be neat, too. Though I've always wondered if tinting or "lowdarking" instead of "highlighting" would be better. A currently active control, like the button above, would already be highlighted.

[pulkomandy]

We have mouseover highlight now. Should the same highlight be used for this?

[humdinger]

Replying to pulkomandy:

We have mouseover highlight now. Should the same highlight be used for this?

Yes, please.