Re: [Usability] triple mouse click behavior

[claudio vaccarella <claudevac virgilio it>]

I am also a Mac user and I can confirm that triple clicking is 
supported. (i.e.) I use it for selecting long URL to be copied.
Claude

Seth Nickell wrote:

> The designers of the Xerox Star, from whom this behavior derives,
> intended triple clicking to select a sentence (and it does on the Star,
> and I'm guessing the Macintosh and Windows too, though I haven't
> checked). They have a lot of test results from detailed tests in areas
> like this, but a lot of it is not available, so who knows if they
> compared selecting lines vs. sentences.
>
> -Seth
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:24, John F Dixon Iv wrote:
>  
>
> > Please correct me if i am wrong, but in most/all applications triple 
> > clicking on text selects the entire line, correct? (I haven't really 
> > examined this issue deeply) I don't know for whom or why this is useful. 
> > If someone could provide an example, i would love to hear it, i am 
> > genuinely interested. Personally, i rarely, if ever use it. On the other 
> > hand, when using word processors for example, i frequently cut and paste 
> > individual sentences to move them around inside my documents. What would 
> > be the pros and cons of making triple mouse clicks select an entire 
> > sentence for some applications such as word processors? Personally, i 
> > think this would be a great improvement. Selecting a sentence is 
> > relatively hard because it requires such fine motor coordination 
> > especially if you want to select the punctuation and white space exactly.
> >
> > John
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