In article <vilain-CBE190.21560104052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Michael Vilain <vilain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > My query is to whether there is any agreed upon standard or convention
in
> > regards to button behavior.
>
> Well, if you do find a "standard", I think it will then have to be
> tested on all the browsers and made to work the same on all of them,
> right? Wait. That isn't the case now.
There's also the (IMHO much more im****tant) question of what most users
will expect, based on their total computing experience, regardless of
whatever varied browser or other program authors may give them.
Or even, what ought to be this behavior, based on just plain public
policy concerns.
Speaking for myself, I've always understood that even after I do a mouse
down on _any_ button, or menu command, or dock item, or anything, in any
app or browser, or whatever, I can always back out of or escape from
whatever that interface element is set up to do by moving the point off
that element to a "safe" spot on the window, and then releasing it.
I strongly sup****t that as what I think ought to be a universal mouse
characteristic: there ought to _always_ be an escape route from _any_
mouse over or mouse down.
Mouse over or mouse down can give the user "pop up" information, but
neither mouse over nor mouse down ought to _ever_ initiate any
potentially irreversible action.
And of course mouse over can be a good thing (e.g., tool tips), or a bad
and undesirable thing (big ad pops up, covering up the material you were
reading).
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