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Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudimentary implementations of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secure site in Mozilla Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigation bar turn yellow. In another case, the BBC’s 2002 redesign of its bbc.co.uk website introduced the wonderfully elegant idea of “digital patina” (sometimes referred to as “digital color footprint”), in which usage patterns create worn paths (e.g., the more you visit the BBC Sports section, the darker the Sports box on the homepage becomes).

HTML	Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudimentary implementations of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secure site in Mozilla Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigation bar turn yellow. In another case, the <span class="caps">BBC</span>’s 2002 redesign of its bbc.co.uk website introduced the wonderfully elegant idea of “<a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/files/banda/ambient_signifi/patina.jpg">digital patina</a>” (sometimes referred to as “digital color footprint”), in which usage patterns create worn paths (e.g., the more you visit the <span class="caps">BBC </span>Sports section, the darker the Sports box on the homepage becomes).

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Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudimentary implementations of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secure site in Mozilla Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigation bar turn yellow. In another case, the <span class="caps">BBC</span>’s 2002 redesign of its bbc.co.uk website introduced the wonderfully elegant idea of “<a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/files/banda/ambient_signifi/patina.jpg">digital patina</a>” (sometimes referred to as “digital color footprint”), in which usage patterns create worn paths (e.g., the more you visit the <span class="caps">BBC </span>Sports section, the darker the Sports box on the homepage becomes).

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