>I deal with "regular" people all the time. They have no trouble with the >2nd mouse button. I only need to show them once. Two or 3 times for the >"extra" regular people.
To some, this may look like a personal attack, but it is not meant to be. The two of us have different ways of looking at the world so any discussion of this is bound to be about personal characteristics. I think our many previous interactions have amply demonstrated that you are not observation driven. You tend to see what your predispositions prepare you to see -- for example the many things you say about Macs that are not so. When people are having trouble you filter it out or write them off as stupid. I think you do not notice when the technology is failing. When I say that people have trouble with the second button it is because I have watched them. I see how they are startled and frustrated whan they click and a menu pops up instead of the action they expected. This problem is especially serious when the mouse operator is still trying to work out the hand-eye coordination issues involved in moving the mouse pointer across the screen. It also gets confusing when they are facing badly over-designed web pages full of rollovers and pop-ups. When they click the "wrong" button they are confused because suddenly they are interacting with the browser instead of the web page they are concentrating on. This change of context is a difficult concept that is hard to learn. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
