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echo: bluewave
to: Mark Lewis
from: Nancy Backus
date: 2004-06-04 22:11:34
subject: Re: TelNet File Transfers

-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 05-30-04  11:51 <=-

 NB> Point and click generally frustrates me, as it often moves,
 NB> just before the click...

 ML> using a mouse is just like taking a picture or shooting a gun...
 ML> squeeze the trigger... don't jerk it ;)
 
Oh, I know... in theory.  Tell that to my hand.    And it doesn't
take much of a twitch to have the pointer just off of where it should
have been.

 NB> and keyboard shortcuts aren't always* available

 ML> yes, i hate this, too... its a lack of coding on the part of the app
 ML> creators... many of them just don't think about these things as
 ML> they're too busy moving a mouse or rolling a trackball... rather than
 ML> paying attention to efficiency, they're paying attention to pretty...

Pretty is as pretty does, as the saying goes.  :)

ttyl           neb

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