On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:16:34 -0500, AES wrote (in article
<siegman-DC5E73.07163405052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
[joining in on the discussion regarding button behavior]
> 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).
Many thanks for an excellent and insightful posting!
--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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