Here's one for you.

OK, we are all in agreement that its not a good idea to change the default
cursor.

But even Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" has a pointer (the finger cursor)
hovering over a button on the front cover of his book - yet in IE and
Firefox buttons have the cursor.

Personally I think that all buttons should have pointers, the same as
hyperlinks.  I always apply "cursor:pointer" to my buttons - partly because
my boss tells me too, but I also agree with him (and Krug, it seems) that it
helps usability.

Who disagrees?


On 1/10/07, Anders Nawroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Patrick H. Lauke skrev:
> Quoting Anders Nawroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> 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.
>
> Some people have very specific problems, but will have to learn how to
> adapt their user agent, or themselves, to cope with them. Breaking
> default functionality in browsers to "aid" these users is not a
> sustainable solution...and in an attempt to help these people, you're
> creating problems for an other section of users who actually rely on the
> browser's default behaviour.

OK, I have now changed the "text marker" cursor on my own system, much
easier to see it now :-)

/anders


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