On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > >> Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> | Or would this be considered bad UI? > >> > >> I would. > > | Just out of curiousity, could you exand on why? Do you dislike > | double-clicking with a mouse for instance? > > What if we did this to "backspace", one-time: one char, two-times: > whole line. (perhaps not the best example...)
I'm not sure if you're serious here... however, if two-times deleted a word, that *might* feel intuitive, but I feel very uncertain about it. Otherwise, there's a difference between the effect of'enter' and 'backspace' since 'enter' only has a "meaning" the first time it's pressed. Anyway, along the same thinking, you could imagine that pressing Arrow-Left twice quickly would do a 'word-left' and so on. Perhaps a better example would be that "dobule-pressing"'HOME moves to the beginning of the current paragraph (or the document). These are just loose ideas... is it even possible to do something like this using any of the frontends? > IMHO operations that insert stuff should not depend on timing. On second thought I might agree with you there... entering text on a cell phone is kind of annoying when you have the time dependance, but perhaps that's just because I'm used to it... Maybe someone who writes lots of SMS can say if he's used to the time dependance? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
