On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:12:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
SL> For me the answers are the keys and the keyboard. Why do I want
SL> to move my hand all the way over to the mouse to use an analog
SL> pointing device to mark/move text when the matter of a few pixels
SL> this way or that results in unintended marking and placement? The
SL> mouse is less precise, more time consuming and less convenient for
SL> working within text which is what the keyboard, for about a century
SL> now, has been designed to do!
<rant> So if they managed to allow you to manipulate text
*accurately* by thought you'd still stick to the keyboard because that's
how it's being done for a century?! I hate this justification by long
standing tradition, especially with usability issues like these. If the
traditional way is better then say so. Adding this silly 'but this is
how it has been done for god knows how many years' just doesn't cut it.
It just shows you up as a old fogey who doesn't like to change for the
better or unwilling to adopt new ideas or ways of achieving goals and
completing tasks.</end rant>
Pardon the rant and sensitivity on the point but in my
profession, medicine, it's a most unprogressive attitude to have and
believe me it's very much rampant and younger people in the field like
myself find it a hindrance to timely progress. :-)
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