Silly point. I'm pretty sure Krug would have designed his cover :S
We have conducted usability testing on 100's of sites and my argument is that when you hover over a button and nothing happens, users sometimes think "oh the button is dead" So it's not just my personal preference to have a cursor change to a finger-pointer on a button. On 1/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 ------------------------------ *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 > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > -- James ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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