On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:06 +0100, Will Thompson wrote: > > For the record: Pidgin used to have a Send button you couldn't > disable. > It turned out that lots of people thought you had to click it to send > a > message, rather than being able to just hit Enter, which is why it was > removed (and later resurrected as a plug-in, primarily for those using > tablet PCs IIRC).
Then we should have an option to have one :) > I don't know whether there was any non-anecdotal evidence about this, > but it matches my (anecdotal) experience of watching computer-shy > people > use Firefox: they often painstakingly aim for and click the little > green > > icon in the address bar, rather than just hitting enter. I've even > seen people who know they can hit enter elsewhere in the browser do > this. But I imagine that Mozilla have done more extensive usability > testing about this and decided that people get confused if the icon > isn't there. That's entirely true. My gran'ma does the same, clicking on the Send button instead of Enter. If I recall well, that "go" button was added in IE 4, so Netscape can't be blamed for it. Never the less, I think we should have one, even if it is disabled by default.
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