[Epiphany] Re: ui improvement requests



On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 09:26, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Well users are clumsy so we should forgive them and not randomly popup 
> windows on them because they happen to click the middle mouse button. I've 

I've never seen a randomly popped up window from middle mouse button
click. I don't know what you're talking about. Netscape and Mozilla have
loaded pasted url in the already existing window.

> 95% of the web using public expects middle clicking to autoscroll (IE 
> users), so i'm fairly certain that autoscroll is a much saner default, in 

95% of the public doesn't expect anything, because they haven't used any
browser long enough to expect anything. You know that. 95% of IE users
is not the correct target userbase.

> addition to be consistent with using the mouse wheel to scroll. Another big 

I really don't see how click equals scroll or why it would be
consistent..

> usability plus with autoscroll as the default is that two button mouse users 
> (yes some people stillonly have two buttons) can get all the advantages of 
> middle mouse scrolling that all of us 3 button mouse users already have. 

And this I don't understand at all. How does putting any functionality
in middle mouse button suddenly enable that functionality for two button
mouse users? You don't seriously expect anyone to accept the argument
that clicking both buttons simultaneously is USABLE? People have trouble
understanding how to press shift/ctrl and a letter key simultaneously,
let alone clicking two mouse buttons at the same time.

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Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@iki.fi>

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