[Sigia-l] Right-side navigation

H Taylor taylor at critpath.org
Wed Jul 7 11:55:30 EDT 2004


On Arjun wrote:

> Having worked in libraries, I have seen not once that users leave the 
> terminal with the mouse on the left side.


Arjun, are you drawing some conclusion from this? The users will likely 
leave the mouse wherever they needed it last - wherever the last thing 
they clicked on might have been. I don't think I'd attempt to read much 
more than that.


However, I think I remember Tog commenting on accessibility of right 
corners of screen vs. left corners of screen at some point, but I don't 
remember the details; does anybody else? I think it was part of 
prioritizing the the five most easily-accessible points on the screen. 
Wherever the mouse happens to be at the moment, and then the four 
screen corners, in a particular order.

But I suppose this starting to stray off topic, as a navigation window 
is not a screen...

-Hal Taylor




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