From: Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:59:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310763597.1701.92.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110715213431.2e1e37c6@lahti.ethans.dre.am>
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 21:34 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> > > if the user hovers mouse over widget area, it would be understood as intention to activate widgets,
> >
> > eeek! > Am I the only one who doesn't like this idea?
> You're definitely not the only one.
OK, devil's advocacy here.
Liberal use of hyperlinks causes tednelsonitis, where the author assumes
you want to spend all day researching in depth while in fact you just
want to get the idea and move on.
A little explanatory text that pops up in a mouseover on a bit of jargon
can be very helpful. You stay on the page while getting the brief bit of
background needed.
The practice has gotten a bad rap through abuse by advertisers, but if
you look past that I think it's useful.
wk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-11 14:56 Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:14 ` simon softnet
2011-07-11 15:25 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:21 ` hiro
2011-07-11 15:23 ` hiro
2011-07-11 15:35 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:43 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-11 16:12 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 16:56 ` Jacob Todd
2011-07-11 17:21 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 17:25 ` ron minnich
2011-07-11 17:28 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12 6:15 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 17:28 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-07-11 17:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-07-12 8:23 ` Sergey Kish
2011-07-12 9:18 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-12 12:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 12:36 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12 13:00 ` yy
2011-07-12 13:21 ` Jack Norton
2011-07-12 13:40 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 14:31 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12 14:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 15:26 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-13 6:02 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-13 6:12 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-07-14 17:12 ` Yaroslav
2011-07-14 17:22 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-13 13:43 ` Jack Norton
2011-07-13 14:16 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-07-13 14:45 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-07-15 20:41 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-15 20:34 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-15 20:59 ` Wes Kussmaul [this message]
2011-07-12 20:52 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-13 6:15 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-13 6:23 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-07-15 20:45 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
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