Sik wrote:I've lost track of how often I've had the scroll wheel break ._. (it seems to be the lowest quality part in mouses these days) Not to mention I've run into laptops where the scroll wheel isn't simulated by the trackpad, or where it is but it's so inconvenient that you may as well ignore that it exists. Also the scroll wheel is awful when you have to scroll a lot (bound to happen when the list gets too long), you need to spin it many times as opposed to just holding down the button with a scrollbar.
Interesting, I've never had the wheel break of probably close to 15 mice, left button (Logitech) at least 3 times. As for "spinning", luckily many (most?) Logitech mice have the option of clicking the scroll wheel to spin freely instead of in increments, fast for scrolling.
Sik wrote:
Also sometimes I happen to have my hand on the mouse but not the other hand on the keyboard, being forced to suddenly use the keyboard when the mouse could have done the job is annoying =P (same goes the other way, I've seen way too many programs that aren't usable without a mouse, which must be "fun" for people with mobility issues)
Couldn't agree more, almost half of my computer use is without a pointing device. Luckily MS is decent at it, once you learn all the relevant tricks you can do most stuff on Windows from keyboard only in a reasonable way.
For instance, when you want to follow links in Firefox you can use the search (ctrl-f) to find something that's close to what you want and that moves the invisible cursor, then the tab key starts from there, so you can quickly get to the link. This is also a good reason why web pages shouldn't use custom _picture_ buttons, you can't search for them.
Anyone who wants to design their OS to be _usable_ should probably spend half their time using their OS (and dev tools) with keyboard only. Maybe also a part of the time with mouse only.
Sik wrote:
LtG wrote:I quoted the large picture intentionally to preserve what I was referring to, of course if the original picture disappears it won't really help though.. For instance reading some of the old threads you'll notice that berkus's posts are missing and when people answer to them it's difficult to follow, unless they've quoted which preserves the context..
You can just leave in the link (i.e. remove the [img] tags)
True, but especially if the post happens to be on a different page (didn't check), then it's still not as good. Honestly, the "correct" thing is to keep context, and in this case it was to quote.
I'm not a fan of too big pictures that cause the "pagination" in browsers not to function in a desirable way, but I still think that maintaining context is the correct solution and the problem should be "fixed" on the BBS side. For instance the BBS should scale the image and allow full sized image to be presented by clicking the image, etc.. Of course I'd also prefer if the image was actually hosted by the BBS so they would stand the test of time, but that would possibly create legal issues..
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PS. I also bought one of IBM's keyboards just because it has the "pointing stick", not sure why nobody else wants to produce those. It's very convenient when you're mostly keyboard bound and need the mouse for something quickly but temporarily. It takes some getting used to, but once you do it's at least 10x better than any crappy track pad.