Re: intelligent dialogs

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

You're trying to convince me that left handed people in north america should
be taught to count from right to left intuitively for the sake of their
mouse?  Or that right-handed people in Israel should count from left to
right (normally right to left)?

This type of numbering is short-sighted and ethno-centric.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom@idecnet.com>


> > Mouse buttons are not logically first, second or third.  In fact, most
> > software refers to three buttons as LEFT, RIGHT and MIDDLE because its
most
> > likely the user has only two.  That is, they're often mentionned out of
> > order (for numbering type people).  red, green and blue would be nice
...
> > but won't happen any day soon.
>
> Well, left handed people are fucked up of getting the instructions
> inverted. If you teach people that they have # buttons, and that they
> attach numbers to them, then you can reffer to the buttons by
> number. Like F# keys, but as there are left and right handed people,
> you can not hard code it (you are in the same place than with left /
> middle / right).