On 2011-06-14, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> And did any of the studies take into account the fact that a lot of >> computer users - in all but the purest data entry tasks - will use a >> mouse as well as a keyboard? > > What I think's really stupid is designing keyboards with two > big blocks of keys between the alphabetic keys and the mouse. > Back when standard-grade keyboards didn't usually have a > built-in numeric keypad, it was much easier to move one's > right hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse.
That's why I always buy keyboards without numeric keypads. :) Another good solution is to put the mouse on the left-hand side. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
