Re: [OT] Mouse buttons (was Re: troubling article)
Re: [OT] Mouse buttons (was Re: troubling article)
- Subject: Re: [OT] Mouse buttons (was Re: troubling article)
- From: Dix Lorenz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:14:47 +0200
On Donnerstag, Juni 12, 2003, at 08:52 Uhr, Jeff Harrell wrote:
Look, all this hoo-hah about mice (mouses? whatever) is old news. Mice
are not good input devices. Mice with multiple buttons on them are
even worse. We need to solve the problems surrounding touch-sensitive
screens. The three big ones are cost, software (how to discriminate
exactly what the user is pointing at which a big, fat finger mashes
down on a little control object), and smudgery. Once we have those
solved, the mouse will go the way of the light pen and the floppy
drive. Don't make me slide some widget around on my tabletop to line
up a pointer with a control! Just let me point at the damned thing!
Direct manipulation is where it's at. All my life, and I've been using
computers since I was but a wee lad, I've been unable to shake the
feeling that using a mouse is like trying to mix a martini with one of
those remote manipulator things they use in hazardous materials labs:
awkward to the point of absurdity.
Oh great. Using a 23" touch screen all day long and every time I want
to move the cursor from one end to the other I need to move my whole
arm instead of just a flick with the wrist. Thanks, but no thanks...
Dix
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