First things first - what makes you think that Steve Krug designed the
cover of that book? My father has authored several books, and I can tell
you that he has a fairly low regard for the designers that produce his
covers, and routinely place items upside down etc.
To answer your query, I would suggest that buttons have a different
action to hyperlinks (most of the time) so your argument that they
should have the same curser does not seem valid to me.
Mike
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Crooke
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Using "cursor:default;" on the whole page but
links
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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