When I read the first couple of messages in this thread, I had a look
at my two browsers - IE6/PC and Safari/Mac.
It was interesting to see that IE displays what I believe is the
correct behavior (the cursor becomes insertion bar over text), while
in Safari it remains an arrow - or does it? I noticed a flicker, and
moving the cursor very slowly from a blank area to text it does, for
an instant, become an insertion bar before returning to the arrow.
Somewhat bizarre and not in keeping with the vaunted Macintosh easy
to use UI?
More generally, I'd think that the different cursors displayed are an
OPERATING SYSTEM rather than APPLICATION UI issue, and as such should
be left alone - after all, if the insertion bar is hard to see in IE
then it's equally hard to see in MS Word, and the user should be left
to decide for herself whether to make a system-wide change of cursor
types. Surely taking decisions of this kind out of the user's hands
in the browser environment runs counter to the spirit of usability?
Andrew Maben
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On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Mihael Zadravec wrote:
On 1/10/07, Anders Nawroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mihael Zadravec skrev:
> that is rigt. I will stop doing that... But than again... Opera
displays
> arrow even when cursor is positiond over the text...
There are people who have problems to spot the cursor when it's the
vertical bar. That would be a reason to use the arrow.
/anders
That is actualy something I agree with... It's true that even I
have problems with spoting the cursor sometimes...
I belive that could be a good reason for using an arrow as a cursor...
Mihael
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