I do this occasionally because it is a very useful way to highlight something when you're talking to someone. I have also worked with several people who do this more compulsively whenever reading.
In place editing is useful but should not be enabled just by clicking on the text. It is always annoying when some text cannot be quickly selected. On Apr 16, 2012 6:17 PM, "Geoff Appleby" <[email protected]> wrote: > No idea what its called. And until now I never realised I wasn't alone. > > *stands up* hi. My name is Geoff and i'm a compulsive text clicker*sits > down again* > > +1 to your numbers :-) > On Apr 16, 2012 6:13 PM, "Joseph Clark" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi list! >> >> This is a bit of an odd request, but I'm yet to find the right >> incantation of search phrases that will yield results from the Internet - >> hopefully you can help! >> >> There is a certain subset of computer users who, when reading text on the >> screen, compulsively click or highlight text that they are reading on the >> screen (I am one of them!). I didn't even know I was doing it until >> someone pointed it out to me whilst I was pairing with them a few years ago. >> >> One of our in-house products recently shipped a new milestone version >> internally with a new "feature" when viewing issues that allows you to >> instantly edit the content of the fields on the screen simply by simply >> clicking on them (turning the plain HTML into editable form controls >> on-the-fly). This is pretty neat, but as a serial text-clicker, this >> feature is downright infuriating. I was happy to put this down as either a >> little personality quirk of my own, or merely some indication that I may be >> insane, but a quick straw poll of those nearby finds at least 3 other >> people who have the same behaviour, or some variant (one guy says he clicks >> on browser windows a lot as a muscle-memory thing to ensure the right >> browser window has focus). >> >> I'm trying to describe to the other team why this new feature sucks for >> some people, but I have no idea if that "some people" is one in ten users, >> or one in one million. Have searched a bit online for information about >> this, but I don't really know what to search for. Does this user behaviour >> have a name? Are there other people like me out there (hello? hello?)? Any >> literature around on whether or not its a great idea to bind functionality >> to an innocuous user-action like text-selection or clicking in an >> apparently non-clickable area? >> >> Cheers! >> Joe. >> >>
