[Sigia-l] Canberra IA Cocktail Hour: Thursday 15 November 2007

[Matthew Hodgson]

wot if you're left-handed?

or use a mouse in your left-hand, but are actually right handed?

basing click-options solely on predominant handedness seems a little odd to me

m

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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz [listera at earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, 9 November 2007 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Canberra IA Cocktail Hour: Thursday 15 November 2007

Matthew Hodgson:

> Is the default behaviour [OK] or is it [Cancel] ?  ... If default is OK then
> put it first (thinking left-to-right text cultures)

That's overwhelmingly trumped by the operating system conditioning: On Macs
the default button is the right-most one, as if virtually trying to get
closer to your right-handed mouse. Anything else is just not even wrong.

--
Ziya

It depends.
If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.


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