On 1 May2005, at 4:10 PM, P. H. Adams wrote:
I'm just curious (so don't flame me), but I've always wondered of what use those "next" and "previous" buttons were in e-mail clients. I've used clients that have them, and never touched 'em. Seems like extra effort when you can hit the spacebar or arrow keys to jump through your e-mails. Maybe it's just me, though, since I've always been a "keyboard-centric" kind of guy.
Your supposition would seem correct. I can see why one think that. It seems like one would not have need for such buttons. When one has them, however, they prove to be handy.
They were not my usual way of going through a list, but if I was doing something with the mouse anyway, I could easily get the next message without having to move my hand to keyboard.
For example, I might open a mailbox of stored messages looking for a certain one. That's a mouse gesture. Then to go down the messages in that mail box, using a button is easier for me than clicking on each message.
Peter
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