James Crooke wrote:
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?
I have resigned myself to this. I decided last night that I couldn't
justify the amount of time I spent specifically on IE6 for each project
- my design process involves designing the best-case site, building it,
and then making it work in IE6+7, which involves a lot of work that I am
now not so sure is valid use of time.
What I'm getting at is that I'm ditching my .htc and .js ideas for
hovering buttons and falling back on this [cursor:pointer] technique,
which is actually more than enough to denote interactivity - and has
indicated this since time immemorial.
Regards,
Barney
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