Re: Correct Website Button Behavior?

In comp.sys.mac.apps TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A button on a website typically has three states commonly referred to as

> "normal", "over", and "click".
> 
> "Normal" is what is displayed when the cursor is not positioned over the

> button.
> 
> "Over" is what is displayed when the cursor is positioned over the
button and 
> the mouse is not clicked.
> 
> "Click" is what is displayed and what happens when the cursor is
positioned 
> over the button and the mouse is clicked.
> 
> I've noticed that there are two common behaviors for the "click" state.
The 
> first is that the appearance of the button changes upon a mouse down and
the 
> action takes place upon the subsequent mouse up.

Which is the way app buttons work, and have worked forever. It obviously a
representation of the physical button analogy - when you press the button
it depresses.

> The second is that the 
> action takes place upon the mouse up and there is no action for the 
> subsequent mouse down.

And that's laziness on the web. It's done, but it's a step backwards IMHO.

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